I’m Chara Meredith, a contemporary Australian abstract painter working in Melbourne.

Painting is where I feel most fully myself, a place of stillness I can return to, even when it's hard to find. I work in acrylics, building up layers of colour before adding small, rhythmic marks across the surface, a process that is slow, intentional and deeply felt.

The paintings can be dark, light, or intensely colourful but what I'm always reaching for is something beneath the surface, that which is hard to name. I make work for people who are on their own inner journey. People who pause. People who look twice. My hope is that something in these paintings keeps pulling you back and that each time you return, you find something you didn't see before.

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