‘Rapture’
London-based Australian artist Ella Baudinet unifies the mind, body, and spirit through her ethereal oil paintings. The pieces combine sensibilities from multiple art movements, including abstraction, Surrealism, and realism, and are expressed through colorful, swirling compositions. Monumental in their beauty and scale, the thought-provoking works are included in Baudinet’s solo exhibition at S GALLERY in Madrid, Spain.
The collection of paintings is titled Expansion, and they emerged during a period of personal transformation for Baudinet. “Created amidst significant shifts in my life,” she tells My Modern Met, “this series became both a reflection of and a response to the process of change. The energy present while navigating these transitions was channeled into each piece, resulting in a collection that explores growth, self discovery, and the stretching of one’s limits. Each painting tells its own story, a visual representation of the emotions and revelations encountered in times of evolution.”
Every piece features elements of splendor and shape-shifting, with aesthetics that borrow from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In The Cosmolatrist, for instance, the bottom of the composition contains trees, water, and even a snake wrapped around a branch. As our eye moves up towards the top of the painting, smoke rises from the swirling yet fractured landscape toward a night sky dotted with stars. Witnessing it all is a female figure near the side of the compoistion. She looks directly at the rising smoke as if it’s destined to happen.
“As someone deeply attuned to the world around me, I often experience the process of transformation on a visceral level,” Baudinet explains. “The reshaping of reality, whether internal or external, can feel overwhelming as the body, mind, and spirit seldom adjust at the same pace. Expansion is an invitation to step beyond what we know, to embrace both the uncertainty and possibility of transformation. It is within this discomfort that new facets of the self are discovered.”
Expansion will be on view at S GALLERY from April 25, 2025.
Artist Ella Baudinet unifies the mind, body, and spirit through her ethereal oil paintings.
‘The Cosmolatrist’
‘Zenith’
The pieces combine sensibilities from multiple art movements, including abstraction, Surrealism, and realism, and are expressed through colorful, swirling compositions.
‘Demiurge’
‘Inception’
The collection of paintings is titled Expansion, and they emerged during a period of personal transformation for Baudinet.
“As someone deeply attuned to the world around me, I often experience the process of transformation on a visceral level.”
