Laini Eckardt — Underwater Figurative Paintings & Pastel Portraits

Dissolution

Oil portraits painted from inside dark water — figures held at the point where the surface breaks, where breath, pressure and identity begin to give way. Light refracts across faces that are neither rising nor sinking, but suspended between suppression and awakening.

Underwater oil portrait dissolving into deep water, from the Dissolution series

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Chalk pastel

Muse

Portraits of the sacred feminine — mythic, rooted and unhurried, drawn in pastel on paper.

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Gathering of the Moonflowers — botanical feminine collage by Sydney artist Laini Eckardt

Botanical & figurative

Bloom

Growth, myth and the garden — hand-drawn figures woven with vintage botanical and celestial imagery.

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The artist

Three decades of making,
from deep water to full bloom

Laini Eckardt is a Sydney-based artist working across oil and acrylic painting, chalk pastel, digital collage, animation and analogue film photography. Her work moves between the mythic and the psychological — the sacred feminine, the natural world, and the figures beneath the surface.

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Original works & limited edition prints

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Dissolution

Muse

Bloom

Three decades of making,from deep water to full bloom

Original works & limited edition prints

Three decades of making,
from deep water to full bloom