Riverground Walk Around

Riverground Walk Around

Kristine Ballard

Oil on wood panel

16.5cm x 26.5cm (framed)

$390.00

ARTWORK STATEMENT
Riverground Walk Around offers a small window into the atmospheric light and colour experienced along the pathways that hug the artist’s local waterway, the Cooks River. Living in the hub of city life, beneath the flight path, Ballard has long retreated to the river for solace, calm and a chance to centre her thoughts. A constant, living presence, the river has many moods, each offering something different to discover.
Here, the morning light warms with the gentle arrival of a new day, bringing a glow of colour and a sense of quiet delight. Part of Ballard’s Riversong Collection, this work explores the optical effects of light and nature, and the restorative benefits of a little forest bathing.

Artist Bio

Kristine Ballard is a Sydney-based artist known for her expressive use of paint and sumptuous colour. Working in her distinctive style, ‘Fragmatism’, she deconstructs form and reconstructs colour to create reimagined spaces that invite viewers to reclaim colour in their own lives.

A self-confessed colour lover, Ballard has pursued this fascination across continents, undertaking residencies in New York, Venice, and France. Yet it is the unique quality of Australian light that anchors her practice and helped shape the radiance and intensity of her palette throughout her art practice over the past two decades.

Her work explores themes of tenacity and splendour within both the natural world and the human condition. Through still life's, interiors, and landscapes, she elevates the everyday and often overlooked, using optical colour relationships to create depth, movement, and emotional resonance. Central to her practice is a belief in the transformative power of colour to influence wellbeing and perception.

Ballard’s art career spans international exhibitions, residencies, art prizes, and commercial collaborations. Guided by a commitment to help the world go “bright beyond beige,” her work celebrates colour as a force of resilience, beauty, and renewal.

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