Stories of Home By Sandra van Doorn

About

Join as at Darling & Domain to celebrate the beautiful Sandra van Doorn and her gorgeous new collection 'Stories of Home.'

All pieces are original artworks and available for purchase.

About the Art:

Stories of Home is a collection of paintings that feels like a birdsong.

Bright, clear, and full of life. The kind of sound that lifts a morning and stays with you through the day. Home is a place of joy and happiness — something we make. It lives in the people we turn toward, the colour we choose, the small patterns we keep close.

Home is everywhere a birdsong gets to be heard. In a laugh across the table, in the light on a face, in the feeling of being exactly where you want to be.

These paintings carry that feeling: open, warm, and glad to be here.

About the Artist:

"I am a French-Australian illustrator, author and painter based in Perth, Western Australia. I hold a Master’s in Art (Illustration), and years of illustrating and publishing children’s picture books — including a Kate Greenaway Medal nomination. What once lived on book pages now breathes in large paintings.

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The work is about the meaning of home and belonging, the emotional landscapes of connection, leaving, identity, and the search for rootedness in a life shaped by movement.

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For the longest time I have carried two sentences inside me like small lanterns, yearning for more. One by Albert Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”