Lara Merrett’s colour-rich paintings have been compared to the romantic painters of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries–both imagine geographies of space, atmosphere and physicality. For Merrett, it’s the ‘inquiry into the picture plane and surface, balance of ink and acrylic, of depth and opacity, chaos with order and the reference to otherness’ that inspire her works.

Lara Merrett will be showcasing some of her latest works in her new exhibition What goes around comes around at the Jan Murphy Gallery from April 21 to May 16.