Kissing under the Tree, 2025

My practice is grounded in abstraction and spatial composition, with a strong focus on the deconstruction of landscape through colour, form, and light. I am particularly interested in how cultivated environments like designed gardens, architectural landscapes, and structured public spaces, shape our perception of nature and space. These sites are a starting point for abstraction, allowing me to explore the balance between organic growth and imposed order. Less interested in recording what is there and more drawn to its rhythm, its structure, and its underlying geometry. I distil these observations into abstract compositions, and tonal relationships until only what feels essential remains. This reductive process strips away excess, searching for clarity and resonance in form. Through bold lines, softened transitions, and carefully held spaces, I aim to create paintings that feel both structured and open,works that breathe and invite a slower way of seeing. Colour is central to this process. It is not only a visual language but also an emotional and psychological force. My paintings are shaped as much by memory and sensation as by direct observation. I think of them as reconstructions rather than representations: abstractions that hold fragments of lived experience, the atmosphere of walking through a space, or the emotional charge of colour remembered. In this way, the work is less about description and more about perception. Ultimately, my practice reflects an ongoing interest in how space is experienced, remembered, and felt. Abstraction allows me to approach this in a way that is open-ended, where viewers bring their own associations to the work. My paintings become a meeting point between internal and external worlds, between cultivated structures, natural rhythms, and the deeply personal ways we navigate and respond to our environments.

Evie Adasal is a Sydney-based artist whose work explores abstraction, spatial composition, and the sensory language of colour. With a background in photography and film, she transitioned to painting as a more intuitive way to engage with landscape.

She has exhibited widely across Sydney, regional NSW, and interstate, with solo exhibitions at The Garden Gallery, Sydney, and Anthea Polson Gallery, Queensland. Her work has been shortlisted for major prizes including the Paddington Art Prize, Hawkesbury Art Prize (commended) and the Heysen Landscape Prize (Highly Commended).

Her paintings have been featured in House & Garden, Inside Out, and Art Guide, and she has been interviewed on the Art Wank podcast and contributed to the Paddington Art Prize discussion panel.