Rhonda Campbell

Rhonda Campbell is a prolific Australian mixed media artist known for her evocative landscape and still life paintings. A graduate of the National Art School and Alexander Mackie College in Sydney, Rhonda’s early career spanned teaching art in Australia and design in London. After spending 25 years in the fashion and design industry, she returned to her artistic roots in 2000, rediscovering her passion for painting.

Drawing significant influence from her travels across Outback Australia, Europe, and Asia, Rhonda’s work is deeply inspired by the natural world. Her paintings explore the relationship between colour, texture, and mark-making, often built up through multiple layers of oil, pigment, and cold wax. Rhonda embraces the unpredictability of this process, relishing the "happy accidents" that arise as she scratches back layers to reveal hidden depth and texture.

Recently, Rhonda has embraced a more abstract direction, creating works that retain an echo of her original subject - whether landscape or still life - yet are interpreted through the lens of abstraction. Her paintings are an exploration of memory, atmosphere, and the emotional resonance of place.

As Rhonda says, "Many ideas and images pass through my mind as I paint, but nothing else exists when I do - I'm totally absorbed in my work."

Rhonda Campbell's mixed media paintings are a celebration of spontaneity, texture, and abstracted landscapes, offering collectors a unique perspective on the beauty of the world through a dynamic and layered approach.

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