The title of this work is ‘Regent St. Regent Street is in Maitland and the work is about our lives living in our little cottage on Regent St.
We got married in that house and it was the house we brought our babies home to. The painting show an abstracted middle, encapsulated by a border, symbolic of the cosy, protected nest I made there.
The motifs reference clothes and fabrics from that time,and elements of the house and garden, as well as my thoughts and feeling as I remembered that time and place.
Bianca Vern-Barnett is an abstract artist based in Maitland, NSW and is a graduate of COFA. A finalist in the Hornsby Art Prize, The Newcastle Club Foundation Prize and the National Emerging Art Prize, in 2024 she won the Hunter Emerging Art Prize for Painting. Bianca is represented by Straitjacket.