There’s a special kind of beauty that only exists in Aussie small towns. Road trips without deadlines, country bakeries (how good), op shop treasures, that nostalgia you can only find in a quintessential motor lodge, rare days where you’ve got nowhere to be and nowhere you’d rather be.

Daylight Days is my love letter to Australia.

process.

This collection began after a roadtrip to Orange, NSW for the Jumbled Artist Retreat. Travelling through the Central West along the Golden Highway, I found myself drawn to the charm of the regional towns we passed through.

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In these works you’ll find memories of silver gums flashing past the car window, birds gathered on fences and a feeling of visiting places I’d never been before that somehow felt strangely familiar. We drove home via the coast, so these works hold both country and ocean.

Dry grass and banksias, cool early morning ocean bath swims, driving into that end-of-summer afternoon light and pulling on a jacket for the first time in months.

Painted right after returning to the studio, these works carry the immediacy of memory.

Marks overlap like snippets of conversations and flickers of scenery captured before the memories faded.

These paintings aren’t literal depictions of places, instead the feeling of them.

Daylight Days is my love letter to Australia.

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Meet the artist

Hi – I'm Claudio Kirac and thanks for stopping by to check out my work.

I'm a contemporary Australian artist exploring nostalgia, harmony, memory, shared experience and joy through original abstract and character-based works on paper and canvas.

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