About

Penny Reilly

Multi-media artist, illustrator, photographer and published author of nine books, Penny also has ten exhibitions under her belt in mixed media art.

Penny lives near Daylesford, where she works from her home studio on a rural, 20-acre property. A full-time artist and author, she works with multi-media, (digital painting non-photographic and non AI generated), organic, botanical, handmade ink, water colour, charcoal, pastel and mixed-media/fine art, combined.

She studied art and art history in the UK, completed a visual arts and professional photography diploma in Australia and produces a seamless palette of multi-media pieces that has the viewer wondering how they were rendered. Her work is inspired by her natural surrounds and by nature. Her recent collections, Before the Fall, speaks to the fragility of our planet and the rapid loss of species and natural habitats. This collaborative show was exhibited at The Old Auction House in Kyneton in April 2022, followed by Autumn Light, March 2024.

Alongside her original canvases or cotton rag paintings, she produces limited edition prints and note cards and is available for commissions. Her next project, a non fiction work, entitled Wild Spirits, will be published, 2025/26, while a little poetry and art, companion volume, Poetry for Wild Spirits is available to purchase along with her other volumes.

Her work is nature inspired as is her poetry. With a love of mythology, she takes what is buried in the landscape and makes it visible through word and image.