Haylie Breen
From a young age, I found inspiration in images from National Geographic and glossy magazines, not just for their visual appeal but for the worlds they revealed. These pages opened my imagination to vibrant cultures and distant landscapes, where beauty was expressed through colour, symbolism and storytelling. But it was nature, more than anything, that truly captured my attention. As a child, I would spend hours in the nature reserve beside my family home, picking flowers, photographing butterflies and catching tadpoles, all to the sound of bellbird calls echoing through the trees and cockatoos flying overhead. Those quiet, curious explorations left a deep impression on me. They taught me to observe closely, to appreciate the delicate and the fleeting, and to find wonder in the everyday. Much of my creative work today is a reflection of that early bond with the natural world. Whether through colour, texture or form, I return again and again to the feeling of being immersed in nature, a place of freedom, imagination and connection. As sentimental as it may sound, I see my art as a way of returning to that sense of wonder I first felt as a child.
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