In the Garden: A Celebration of Nature | SALA 2025

Art Images Gallery is delighted to present In the Garden, part of SALA 2025 (South Australian Living Artists Festival), running from 8 August to 7 September 2025. Join us for the opening on Friday 8 August from 6–8pm to experience this vibrant group exhibition.

SALA is South Australia’s largest annual arts festival, celebrating the creativity of living artists across the state. During August, galleries, studios, and public spaces come alive with exhibitions, workshops, and events, giving art lovers the chance to engage directly with artists and their work. In the Garden is Art Images Gallery’s contribution to this state-wide celebration, offering a rich exploration of gardens as both subject and inspiration.

This group exhibition brings together a diverse selection of artists exploring the beauty and symbolism of gardens. From lush, detailed depictions to bold, abstract interpretations, each work invites viewers to reflect on nature’s serenity, cycles of growth, and the personal and cultural stories that gardens hold. In the Garden offers a contemplative space where art and nature meet, encouraging connection, reflection, and transformation.

Featured artists include Eleanor Alice, Alison Arnold, Nicole Black, Olivia Dryden, Caroline Johnson, Dana Kinter, Katrina Linn (featured), Marisha Matthews, Christine McCarthy, Christopher Meadows, Cristina Metelli, Romany Mollison, Megan O’Hara, Eliza Piro, and Tim Shaw. Their unique perspectives highlight gardens as living canvases, celebrating the harmony, diversity, and creativity found in nature.

Experience the beauty of gardens through the eyes of some of today’s most compelling South Australian artists at Art Images Gallery this SALA 2025.

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About the Artists:

Eleanor Alice
Eleanor Alice is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, ceramics, and works on paper. Drawing on symbolic and metaphorical processes, her work explores life experiences through both abstract and realistic interpretations. She has exhibited widely in Australia and Europe, with work held in numerous private collections.

>>View available artworks by Eleanor Alice here.

Alison Arnold
Alison Arnold is a ceramicist and teacher based in the Adelaide Hills, creating both functional and sculptural pieces in porcelain and clay. Her work draws on decades of experience, from early playful explorations with mud in Kenya to refined, hand-formed candelabras and vessels. Alison’s practice balances technical skill with whimsical creativity.

>>View available artworks by Alison Arnold here.

Nicole Black
Nicole Black is an Adelaide-based visual artist whose work captures the emotional essence of landscapes and flora through painting, murals, and mixed media. Her practice blends observation with abstraction, using photography and journaling to document and reinterpret nature’s cyclical rhythms. Nicole also shares her passion through workshops and teaching.

>>View available artworks by Nicole Black here.

Olivia Dryden
Olivia Dryden is a jewellery artist whose work transforms botanical elements from her garden into cast silver pieces adorned with pearls and gemstones. Her collection for In The Garden celebrates growth and preservation, creating sculptural jewellery that reflects life, nature, and careful craftsmanship.

>>View available artworks by Olivia Dryden here.

Caroline Johnson
Caroline Johnson is an emerging oil painter inspired by South Australian landscapes and her own garden. Her works explore still life within natural settings, blending observation with playful visual interpretation. Caroline has exhibited widely and been recognized in numerous art prizes.

>>View available artworks by Caroline Johnson here.

Dana Kinter
Dana Kinter creates artworks reflecting Australia’s native flora and fauna, blending influences from Indigenous painting, Islamic patterns, and Japanese and Indian print traditions. Her practice emphasizes materiality and spiritual resonance, with pieces often titled in homage to poets such as Neruda and Rumi.

>>View available artworks by Dana Kinter here.

Katrina Linn
Katrina Linn returned to full-time painting in 2024, bringing a lifetime of creative experience from pottery and business into her oils and watercolours. She enjoys painting flowers, sparkling objects, and diverse subjects with freedom and joy, embracing the liberating confidence that comes with age.

>>View available artworks by Katrina Linn here.

Marisha Matthews
Marisha Matthews paints with a focus on light, transparency, and reflection, creating lush oil paintings of everyday objects, plants, and native species. Her practice combines painterly texture with polished surfaces, informed by residencies, public commissions, and extensive international experience.

>>View available artworks by Marisha Matthews here.

Christine McCarthy
Christine McCarthy is celebrated for her hand-coloured lino prints of Australian flora and landscapes. Using relief printmaking and gouache, she creates individually hand-finished editions, exploring nature’s textures and patterns, often blending organic and manmade forms.

>>View available artworks by Christine McCarthy here.

Christopher Meadows
Christopher Meadows is a Clare Valley-based painter, illustrator, and sculptor known for representational works that evoke quietness, play, and nostalgia. He balances a studio practice with a lifelong dedication to teaching art locally and internationally.

>>View available artworks by Christopher Meadows here.

Cristina Metelli
Cristina Metelli, originally from Milan, creates abstract paintings inspired by the natural landscape. Her work explores the connection between humans and the environment, using gestural paint applications to capture feelings and experiences of the land.

>>View available artworks by Cristina Metelli here.

Romany Mollison
Romany Mollison is a self-taught landscape painter in the Adelaide Hills, working primarily in oils. Her work captures the emotive qualities of light, season, and mist, aiming to evoke quiet, restorative moments for the viewer.

>>View available artworks by Romany Mollison here.

Megan O’Hara
Megan O’Hara’s practice is inspired by the natural world, translating underwater ecosystems into paintings that mirror the vibrancy and fragility of traditional gardens. Her work combines scientific observation with expressive colour and form.

>>View available artworks by Megan O'Hara here.

Eliza Piro
Eliza Piro creates vibrant acrylic and watercolour paintings filled with intricate patterns and motifs. Her work celebrates colour, life, and joy, drawing inspiration from folk art, mandalas, and textile traditions from around the world.

>>View available artworks by Eliza Piro here.

Tim Shaw
Tim Shaw is a glass artist whose work combines traditional blown forms with radical carving techniques. His sculptures challenge perceptions of vessels, balancing fragility and strength with bold transparency, texture, and colour.

>>View available artworks by Tim Shaw here.

Plan Your Visit

🖼 Art Images Gallery – Adelaide
📆 Exhibition Dates: 8 August – 7 September 2025
📍 32 The Parade, Norwood SA
🌐 www.artimagesgallery.com.au
🕒 Open Mon–Fri 9am-5pm Sat 10am–5pm Sun 2pm-5pm