About Karl Eddy Art

Hi, I'm Karl Eddy

I have been creating art for as long as I can remember. I studied art in high school, but my practice really found its voice afterwards, when I discovered ink as a medium and never looked back.

I think of myself as an artwork hunter. Ink suits this perfectly — light enough to carry into the wilderness, fast enough to capture a moment before the light moves. Many of my works are painted plein air, made on location as part of adventures across Australia and beyond — in the forests of British Columbia, on the volcanic slopes of Hokkaido, along the creeks and headlands of the Sapphire Coast near my home in Wallagoot. When you paint a place from within that place, something of its spirit finds its way into the work and the painting becomes inseparable from the journey that produced it.

Everywhere I look I see art — in the drama of magpies on a suburban fence, in tannin-stained water moving over river stones, in the way a piece of driftwood already contains the form of a bird in flight. Capturing that moment of recognition is what drives me out the door and into the world.

Alongside my art practice I studied horticulture and worked in the industry for over twenty five years. Botanical themes run through much of my work — nods to specific plant species, explorative paint studies, and a particular fascination with banksias. That horticultural eye helps inform the way I look at landscape and the precision with which I render what I find there.

Back in the studio, that same impulse finds its way into other forms — oil, acrylic, pottery and sculpture. I work across a wide spectrum of mediums, and you'll find all of it here. I have more ideas than I will ever have time to express, and that feels exactly right.

It feels like a privilege to step into my art at a deeper level with this website. Thanks for joining me on the journey. I hope you enjoy some aspect of my practice and find it inspires your own creativity.