Artists We Support
Pav Spencer
Pav is an abstract figurative artist based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, creating bold, expressive works that balance playful energy with emotional depth. Her practice is intuitive and layered, rooted in storytelling and spontaneity.
Drawing from years of experience as a graphic designer, Pav embraces colour, shape, and mixed media to build compositions that feel both immediate and considered. Her work often centres around the human figure… distorted, exaggerated, or simplified… placed in scenes that suggest a narrative without ever making it explicit. She is drawn to moments of contrast: stillness and movement, loud colour and negative space, humour and vulnerability.
Whether painting a reclining woman, a chair with a vase, or a fish-wielding figure, Pav wants the work to spark curiosity and joy, inviting people to bring their own stories to what they see. Ultimately, she creates art to connect… with herself, with others, and with the strange and beautiful in-between spaces that sit just below the surface of everyday life.
Scott Thomlinson
Born in 1971 in Shepparton, Victoria. Scott’s art career started at a very early age, drawing reproductions of Sydney Nolan’s Ned Kelly on the living room floor.
At primary school, he continued to refine his artistic skills, drawing dinosaurs and daleks on the classroom blackboard during lunch time (much to the delight of fellow students and the displeasure of his teachers).
In high school, Scott chose fine art, photography and design as his elective subjects, a happy by-product of which was the need to discontinue his study of maths and science.
After Year 12, he moved to Sydney, however unfortunately not in sufficient time to enrol in his preferred tertiary art course.
Not to be deterred, Scott pursued a career in advertising where he spent the next thirty years as a finished artist, illustrator, designer, art director, copywriter, creative director and agency owner.
After achieving all he had set out to achieve in advertising, it was time for a change.
Scott turned his hand to the one thing that had preoccupied his mind for most of his life in one form or another - creating the art he wanted to create.
Bridie O’Brien
Briedie O’Brien is a visual artist and lifelong musician, raised on a working farm in country NSW. After graduating from the Australian Institute of Music in 1998, he pursued a music career across continents before turning to painting full-time in 2020.
Working in oils with a palette knife and bold colour, his practice explores abstract realism and contemporary impressionism, drawing inspiration from travel, bushwalking, and time in the natural world. His work has been recognised as a finalist in major national prizes including the Paddington Art Prize, the Lethbridge Landscape Prize, and the National Capital Art Prize, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally in Madrid, Austria, and Milan.
Now based in Canberra after 27 years in Sydney, he continues to create works that reflect a deep connection between art, light, and the natural world.
