Naomi Malone is a visual artist who resides in Mcleans Ridges.
She grew up in Lismore, NSW but relocated interstate to fulfil a career as a Chemistry Laboratory Manager, testing and analysing fertilisers, soils, plants and water for industry. In 2010 she took time out from working to look after her children and relocated back to Lismore where she started to sell her artworks in 2016.
Naomi is a keen gardener with an obsession for native plants. She and her partner have established a large garden on an acreage from old farmland. The result has been an increase in the diversity of wildlife to her home. This has been the primary inspiration for the subject matter of her artworks; when a new species of bird visits her home, that bird becomes the main subject for her next artwork.
Naomi likes to use paint as her main medium for her artwork. Naomi’s paintings are very detailed and decorative requiring an intimate viewing. The backgrounds of her paintings are just as important as the subject and often the subject merges into the background. Her career in science, which required analysing patterns in data, has merged into her work. The patterns she likes to use in her paintings are inspired by nature and completing a painting is a meditative process. Naomi likes to paint with a vivid colour pallete and uses mostly acrylic paint with many layers of paint applied to the canvas.
She currently holds a Diploma of Visual Arts from Tafe Lismore and has been selling her art throughout Australia for several years.