Where Light Rests Exhibition Opening
Schedule
Thu Apr 02 2026 at 07:30 am to 09:30 am
UTC+11:00Location
2 Roto Place, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia | Port Macquarie, NS
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Where Light RestsAn Exhibition by Jane Whitfield and Sarah Spencer. Where Light Rests brings together two local award-winning artists whose practices, though distinct in method and temperament, converge in their shared reverence for the natural world and the transformative power of light.
Contemporary abstract artist Jane Whitfield explores nature through a distilled, atmospheric language of form and movement beneath the surface. Her paintings delve into imagined and remembered underwater realms, where light fractures, refracts, and dissolves into fluid motion. Through layered detail and luminous palettes, Whitfield conjures submerged worlds that feel both intimate and expansive—spaces where perception is softened and time seems suspended.
Abstract Impressionist artist Sarah Spencer explores the beauty of her natural surroundings. Her works evoke vast oceans, windswept headlands, and shifting horizons, where colour and gesture become emotional cartographies. Rather than depicting landscape directly, Spencer’s compositions capture the rhythm of tides, the pull of open skies, and the meditative stillness found at the meeting point of sea and land.
Together, their work forms a dialogue: ocean and undercurrent, horizon and depth, seen and sensed. Though their approaches are varied and individually contrasted through personal process, both artists are united by an exploration of light as connector—light resting on water, filtering through depths, illuminating edges, and binding diverse natural elements into a shared visual language.
This exhibition is a celebration of nature’s multiplicity—from the vast openness of coastal headlands to the quiet mystery of underwater realms. It invites viewers to pause, to look beyond representation, and to experience the subtle interplay of movement, colour, and illumination.
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