Nicole van Dijk

I am a Melbourne based artist whose work explores the relationship between landscape, memory and constructed image. Trees have become my metaphor for lineage: structures that grow slowly, forming connections between ground, time and place. The landscapes I paint are often small pockets of nature found within the city, spaces where something organic persists within an otherwise constructed environment.

I also work as an Educator, working with pre-service teachers. Both teaching and painting involve a similar process: building something gradually over time, creating structure, connection and continuity.