Welcome. Every painting in this gallery began as something I could feel but not yet say — a colour pressure, a tension, an image that kept returning. My work is an attempt to make those things visible.
I paint in acrylic and oil on canvas, working in series rather than in isolation. A single idea might run across ten or fifteen canvases before it is resolved — or before it opens into something I hadn’t anticipated. Each finished work carries that whole history inside it, even if the surface looks immediate.
What I call Energetic Modernism is not a formula. It is a conviction: that a painting should do something to the air around it. Not illustrate, not decorate — but radiate. The works here range from quietly meditative to almost confrontational in their colour. I find that the people who respond most strongly to the confrontational ones are the ones who, eventually, live with them longest.
Dance of Blues — acrylic & oil on canvas
Endless love — acrylic & oil on canvas
Original works
Everything in this gallery is an original, painted by hand in my Sydney studio. There are no prints here — only singular objects, each one unique. Some are large enough to anchor a room; others are intimate, made to be discovered in a quieter corner. Size and medium are listed on each product page, along with high-resolution photographs and shipping details.
I ship worldwide. Originals travel framed or unframed depending on destination — contact me before ordering if you have a preference, or if you would like to arrange collection in Sydney.
Commissions
If you have a space in mind and nothing here is quite right, I am open to commissions. We would talk about the room, the light, what you want to feel when you walk past it every morning. I work from that conversation rather than from a brief — which tends to produce something more alive than a specification ever would.
Commissions start from AUD $600 depending on scale and complexity. Lead time is usually six to ten weeks. Use the Commissions page to start the conversation.
— Yelena Revis
Premonition — oil on canvas