About Eris


Howdy! I am an artist and teacher who has been exploring the craft for around 20 years. I live, work and make magic on Bindjareb Boodja, on the western coast of Australia south of Boorloo (Perth). I have often found my passion in sharing arts and crafts (of all prescriptions!) in the community, facilitating workshops and classes encouraging others to tap into their own creativity, passion and spiritual connections.

Often my art explores the whimsical, the witchy and the wondrous; I have always been fascinated with myths and magic, and my work delves into the liminal, the kitsch, the silly and the serious all at once. I like to straddle the realms between this one in the next, always with a sense of bright colour, mirth & reverence, and delight in the uncanny or the odd. No longer 'emerging', I realised I quite like it in the underworlds anyways, and so my work often resides in the loose categories of esoteric, 'outsider', or 'lowbrow'. I embrace (and favour) traditional materials and the deeper connection both the artist and the art-lover can have with their pieces if they get their hands smudged, muddy or crusty in the process - I support the cause of human artists in a world now awash in soulless, computer generated, factory-farmed imagery. Art is sacred.

I've posted my art, thoughts and writings off and on online for as long as I've been able to sit in front of a keyboard hooked into the World Wide Web. In recent times I have grown quite disillusioned with 'content creation', the workings of the algorithm, and how we cultivate online personas. You might have noticed the more primitive nature of this website's design. I have decided to engage with 'making content' in ways that used to bring me inspiration and joy. That means editing the HTML manually and abandoning slick templates that suck the life out of me. So please enjoy this little throwback to the past in the site's design!

likez:

  • strawberries
  • ginger kitties
  • incense
  • unicorns
  • astrology
  • tarot

favoritez:

  • Pusheen
  • Baldur's Gate 3
  • Star Trek
  • Holly Black's Folk of Air series
  • A Song of Ice and Fire series
  • Robin Hobb's Fitz and the Fool series