Echoes of Light

Cameilia Grace Edwards is an emerging Australian artist working in oil on canvas. Based in a small NSW regional town, she paints from a shared studio space in town with a large street-facing window, offering the community a glimpse into her process and a quiet connection to her evolving work. Over the past four and a half years, she has been transitioning from commission-based work to developing her own personal style, rooted in light, memory, and stillness. Cameilia has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 National Emerging Art Prize and the 2023 Lethbridge Small Scale Art Prize, and has twice received acquisition prizes in the Inverell Art Prize (2020 and 2023).

“This collection explores the quiet intimacy between light and landscape — the fleeting, golden moments that often go unnoticed, yet carry a deep emotional charge. Working in oils, I aim to translate memory, atmosphere, and stillness into layered compositions that feel both personal and universal.  While rooted in realism, some of my paintings drift into a softened, almost dreamlike realm — a visual echo of how we remember beauty, not how we first saw it.  I work from a shared creative space in our small town, where my easel sits by the front window. As I paint, passersby often stop to watch, wave, or step inside for a conversation. This visibility has become an unexpected and treasured part of my practice — transforming what can be a solitary process into something quietly communal. That connection with people, place, and pace grounds my work in a lived, local rhythm.  At the core of my work is a desire to hold space for calm. In a fast-moving world, painting offers me — and hopefully the viewer — a pause, a breath, and a sense of still wonder.” ~ Cameilia Grace Edwards 2025