Blue Mountains Artists Connection: Member Profile

Selena Seifert

'Scibbly Bark' mixed media on paper

Selena Seifert is an artist and teacher creating contemporary paintings and mosaics.

Selena began her career studying at the National Art School in Sydney and followed that with a Bachelor of Art Education at COFA. She has held 5 solo exhibitions and her work is held in collections in Australia and overseas. Her public art commissions include a 75 square metre wall mural on the Northcott building on Belvoir Street, Surry Hills and well as a mural for the Visitors Centre in Oberon. This mural depicts the giant and extinct Diprotodon that was found at Jenolan Caves.

Selenas works are always inspired by her love of colour, texture and nature. Selena describes her work as naturescapes because they are somewhat snapshots of pieces of nature. Selena often spends time in national parks observing the natural environment. Rich warm colour pallets are often inspired by the pattern of bark on a tree or the patterns of fallen leaves.
The processes of growth, rust and decay mimic what is happening to the universe on a larger scale. The patterns are representative of life, growth, decomposition and re-growth. Moreover Selenas paintings are concerned with the beauty of the natural environment and its fragility in the consumption age.

More of Selenas works can be seen on her website www.brookcottage.com.au/naturescape/

'Embers' oil on canvas

'Charred Landscape' mixed media on paper

'Diprotodon Mural' Oberon visitors centre

Mural detail Northcott building Surry Hills