Hello, I am Keryn
Welcome to my Studio, I create Australian nature art and writing for the love and joy of it.
My current Collection is from Wynnum Manly Lota, Brisbane in South-east Queensland.
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Nature inspired mixed media, photography and writing
Belonging
Belonging is a small mixed media artwork featuring two Australian spoonbills standing together beneath a tuckeroo tree beside the water.
The work was inspired by the familiar foreshore landscape of the Wynnum-Manly-Lota area along Moreton Bay, where tuckeroo trees (Cupaniopsis anacardioides) are part of the character of the coastal landscape.
I love the way spoonbills look back at you with their funny little binocular eyes — as though they are watching us just as carefully as we are watching them.
Handmade paper leaves form the tuckeroo canopy above the birds, while layers of acrylic, watercolour and paper create the water, sky and surrounding landscape. The handmade leaves echo the familiar foliage of these coastal trees, bringing a little of the place itself into the work. Birds are hand created from paper.
The handmade elements are deliberately tactile and imperfect, adding to the character of the work.
Materials: Mixed media — acrylic, watercolour and handmade paper on canvas
Size: 30 × 30 cm
Frame: Pine
Ready to hang
Certificate of Authenticity included
Caring for your artwork
Keep out of direct sunlight and away from excessive moisture. Dust gently with a soft-bristled brush.
As with all handmade mixed media work, small variations and imperfections are part of the making process. They are part of the character of an individual handmade piece.
A vibrant, sculptural mixed media painting from the Wynnum–Manly–Lota foreshore, featuring a pair of handmade paper spoonbills resting on the beach beneath a tuckeroo tree on the shores of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Watching the sun go down over the sea and keeping a watchful eye on me!
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Light in the Dark
Light in the Dark is an original Australian mixed media artwork inspired by the pied stilts of the Wynnum–Manly–Lota foreshore beside Moreton Bay.
Three pied stilts stand together in the shallows as daylight begins to fade. Each bird has its own posture — one alert, one quietly standing and another appearing almost ready to settle for the evening. Their long pink legs and black-and-white plumage become small points of life against the deepening blue water.
The acrylic background captures that particular time towards evening when the brilliant light of the day begins to disappear, leaving the water darker beneath a warm, textured sky.
The handmade paper pied stilts are drawn and painted individually, adding a tactile element to the work and allowing each bird its own character.
Materials: Mixed media — acrylic and handmade paper on canvas
Size: 30 × 30 cm
Frame: [pine, if applicable]
Ready to hang
Certificate of Authenticity included
Caring for your artwork
Keep out of direct sunlight and away from excessive moisture. Dust gently with a soft-bristled brush.
The handmade paper elements are part of Keryn Hyslop's mixed media practice. Small variations and imperfections are inherent in handmade work and contribute to the character of each individual piece.
The beauty of a rich Queensland sunset setting over the Bay of South east Queensland at Wynnum. Pied stilts rest in the shallows. Plenty of texture in this artwork! Ideas and feelings of flight ways, currents and invisible flyways these birds travel to arrive safe and sound in this shorebird haven.
I spend a lot of time walking peacefully along the edge where the sea meets the land at Moreton Bay. This photograph was taken at an early sunrise worth arriving early to see! The sea mirrors the sky as the stone wall heads out into the sea. Pelicans are often seen sitting or standing or in some unusual preening posture drying out their feathers on this wall. This photograph is a page out of my new book about the area.
Nature my place for inspiration and relaxation
Nature is a sense of wonder for me. I enjoy spending time in it.
Every original artwork comes from spending time in nature absorbing the elements, and observing the wildlife. Sometimes, many weeks or even years are spent at a place to gather the understanding and inspiration to translate and interpret into my mixed media art and writing.
Artwork Commissions
“I absolutely love it! It’s a beautiful!”
— Former Customer
This lovely artwork , Red-tailed Black Cockatoos Resting in the She Oaks was a commission, if you may like to talk to me about an idea you have please reach out I’d be happy to talk about it with you.
Why I Create!
Put quite simply I create for Joy.
I feel better when I create, whether it is writing or creating my mixed media art. I find the art of self expression and the gentle creative act of translating and interpreting the amazing source of nature into my joyful and uplifting artworks soothing and satisfying.
Creative beginnings in nature
Creating for the love of it!
My journey in art began a long time ago. As a child I lived in the country amongst the bush and wildlife on the banks of the Burnett River, Bundaberg, Qld.
My days were spent playing, exploring and adventuring playing. Discovery was a big part of what I did. Walking through the bush during day and night was filled with a sense of wonder. The wildlife was unique and marvellous. Sugar gliders, possums, wallabies and many birds with unique song and calls. The possum nests, dreys, were the first sculptural pieces that grabbed my attention, wonderfully woven with little hands from the materials they found surrounding them. These places were home. Same with birds their flight patterns and nests they way they flew through the air was a continual source of wonder. The flashing colours and behaviours were things that always amazed me and brought me into a place of looking, noticing, observing and learning from.
Drawing and playing with sculptures with sticks and stones were early play and art for me. Making my own paint from clay by the creek taught me the love of nature and ephemeral life. My artistic expression were often simple blown or washed away, back to nature into another form. Tomorrow was another day to play. To search to see and to create through my play.
One of my favourite ways to create when I wasn’t playing in nature, was to draw with pencil and colour with crayons. One the floor I would happily create for hours lost in the process and in time. Creation and Imagination. One of my first exhibited artworks was in the local show I won a prize and a place for my artwork that a primary school teacher encouraged me to enter. I felt great and in wonder that my fun and enjoyment had also brought that to others and I was rewarded too, I bought more pencils, paper and crayons!
About Me
Hello!Keryn Hyslop the CreativeForce behind Peninsula Art Studio
Sharing peace through nature
I believe that the journey is the heartbeat of my art and books. My life of movement across Australia shapes every page I write and every canvas I paint...
I find absolute peace in my time being in nature. I create because it’s what I do, I gain sense of peace when I create in any of my chosen expressions, whether it be books, mixed media art or sewing and gardening. I want to allow you to experience that peace through my art and my books here on this website.
I’ve taken my creative journey through many states and territories throughout Australia. Enjoying each places unique natural expressions whether it be rock and rich red soil, or deep green and lush rainforest with an abundance of rain. A flying fox spectacle of thousands in a fly-out, or a little shorebird standing at the edge of the sea perhaps on a little muddy beach looking out to sea.
A range of creativity
I’ve always created, photography, coloured crayons, pencil sketches, sewing, gardening, playing with patterns drawn in the soil or sand with a stick, gathering and forming little arrangement of pebbles in the garden or on the beach. Weaving little baskets out of palm leaves or banana leaves, making little clay cups and pots, even cooking they are all creative acts and speak in different ways or together.
Currently I love writing little verses and stories, artwork perhaps a simple sketch or maybe something bolder
These days I also enjoy painting making mixed media and writing little verses and even short books to lift others up. My amusing little sketches have a glint in the eye or a little upturned smile, a ruffled feather or a particular posture that reveals something deeper. They often have a little touch of humour and humility about them. Some of my artwork is quite bright and bold and I enjoy very much creating my sculptural artworks and combining the paint with little paper details that reveal the gentle complexity of how nature holds it all together seemingly simply.
A look at how I make my Original Mixed Media Art & Books
Spending time in nature brings me a lot of inspiration. I like to create with my hands and I often photograph what I notice. The way I make my mixed media art is one of expressive abstract and collage paper features added to bring a sculptural style to the creation. I also make highly sculptural artworks that have a lot of deep dimension. I enjoy working this way and it yields something akin to the depth I see in nature - light, breezes, smells, touch…I also like to include sgraffito and my own unique mark making from lines, swirls, dashes and dots I’ve developed over time. Some are deeply scored or embossed in the paints, some show through from lower layers revealing what was underneath. I play I experiment and then I finish the art at a point it ‘feels complete’ . Artworks may take many years to complete, others a few weeks, or days. I often work in series, collections and bodies of work these can include a few or up to 30 or more pieces usually in a theme and often from the same place.
The interpretation is often playful, and colourful aimed to bring a sense of joy.
I often write as I am looking about too it may be a little sketch or note or perhaps an observation, what are the birds doing, where are they going? Paper is often a way I can express the depth of what I experience in these inspiring natural places. I walk slowly, I don’t disturb, I sit back and wait and watch. A sentence of prose of wisdom a thought may come to me as I collect the se in a little notebook. I often have several in my bag, and to be honest there is also one (no probably more) in the glove box.
I see a lot of different postures and looks and actions one leg up, one down, a little head tucked under. Watching keenly the fish in the shallows…It’s all observation and sometimes I purely enjoy the place and what it so generously offers me while I am there, I do not record I don’t write I just enjoy.