(t)here is still life
Solo Exhibition by Natalie Eslick
Field Trip Gallery, 21 August - 3 September 2025
From overlooked to extraordinary
Australia's wildlife reimagined
I wonder, what does wild feel like to you?
I ask myself this often. How does wild feel? What have we forgotten, and how can we re-weave that wild connection?
β¨ These are the questions that drive every brushstroke in this collection,
and indeed my work as a whole. β¨
In our increasingly disconnected world, I paint not just to show you what our native wildlife looks like, but to share what they feel like to me, so that you can remember that feeling too.
This collection celebrates our Australian wildlife not as subjects to be studied, but as wild kin deserving of reverence. In learning to see them, really see them, we might also find our way back to our own wild hearts and our belonging to this ancient land.
All works: oil on wood panel, 2025
β¨ To purchase works, or inquire further, please contact Field Trip Gallery here β¨
Exhibition Details
Field Trip Gallery
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
Brisbane, Queensland
August 22nd - September 3rd
Opening event: Fri 22nd August, 4:00 β 7:00 PM
β¨ To purchase works, or inquire further, please contact Field Trip Gallery here β¨
Powerful Presence
Sovereign Wing and the powerful raptors in this collection embody the raw majesty that flows through Australia's ancient landscapes.
These are beings who have witnessed the deep time of this continent, whose ancestors rode thermals above landscapes that shaped them more than 20 million years ago.
When I paint these magnificent hunters, I'm trying to share what it feels like to stand in the presence of true wildness, that moment when you realize you're looking into eyes that hold the memory of wind and stone, sky and earth.
They see you, all of you, for who you are, and the energy we share.
They see through and past you, into time and space and life we can only imagine.
That golden light you see in their gaze? It's the same spark that lights all life, the recognition that we are not so different, not so separate.
π These paintings ask us to remember: what would it mean to see our native raptors not as distant wildlife, but as the sovereign beings they truly are?
Pricing in Australian Dollars
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76x101cm | Unframed |
60x90cm | Unframed |
$3,900 AUD
$3,300 AUD
Sovereign Wing
76x101cm
Whisper Wing | 60x90cm | π΄ SOLD
The Hunter's Garden | 60x90cm
Ancient Parliament | 60x90cm
in borrowed gardens
In these compositions, our native wildlife shares space with cultivated blooms, a gentle questioning of what we choose to celebrate in our homes and hearts.
Why might we more readily hang images of European flowers than honour the remarkable beings who share our daily landscape?
But this isn't about judgment (Sovereign Wing is an incredible Wedge-tailed Eagle painting over a Cedric Morris/Benton iris, one that I personally covet!) it's about invitation.
When a Peregrine Falcon rests among garden roses, or Gang-gang Cockatoos' crests echo the red of poppies, I'm imagining a different kind of beauty.
A world where we revere our exquisite native wildlife as deeply as we do cultivated European blooms and aesthetics. Where we can appreciate both while remembering, honouring, our deeper connections to this place, to the living wild we share this land with.
β¨ These paintings whisper: yes, roses and cultivated blooms are lovely, but they wither and fade, but these ancient wild beings endure. Have you truly seen the magnificence that visits your garden every day, that share the sky you walk under?
Oh, they are worthy of celebration!
Pricing in Australian Dollars
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23x30cm | Framed |
30x35cm | Framed |
30x40cm | Framed |
45x60cm | Framed |
$800 AUD
$1,000 AUD
$1,200 AUD
$2,300 AUD
Bush Bandit | 30x40cm | π΄ SOLD
Nature Noble | 30x35cm
Gentle Presence | 23x30cm | π΄ SOLD
Small Wonders | 23x30cm | π΄ SOLD
Sky Dancer | 30x35cm
Breath and Bloom | 45x60cm
Facets of Being
My process is one of deep observation and connection. Each brushstroke is an act of reciprocity, a way of saying to these remarkable beings, "I see you. You matter. You are my kin. Your presence enriches this world. I am more alive when I know more about you."
Through chiaroscuro and careful composition, I aim to draw attention to the extraordinary that often goes unnoticed in our daily lives.
The exhibition title's wordplay speaks to this dual intention: while honouring the artistic tradition of still life, we are reminded that there is indeed still so much wild life around us. Here. There. (t)here.
We are not separate from this life, we are part of it, woven into the same tapestry of existence.
In times of disconnection and uncertainty, this work becomes both sanctuary and quiet revolution. A declaration that beauty endures, that attention matters, and that the wild world continues to offer us profound lessons in presence, resilience, and wonder.
Pricing in Australian Dollars
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45x60cm | Framed |
$2,300 AUD
This Place, These Beings | 45x60cm
Untamed Heart | 45x60cm
Wild Grace
You may notice that the eyes in these paintings carry a particular golden luminosity. This is painted with Nickel Titanium Yellow.
While not scientifically accurate to each species, this golden light is my artistic interpretation of something much deeper - the spark of life we all share. The shared stardust we are made of. The connection we inherently share, even if we, as human animals, have long forgotten it.
With that little dab of paint I am describing in pigment what I feel when I look into wild eyes - that moment of recognition, of seeing and being seen.
It is fire, it is breath, it is life. It's the light that says, "I am here, I am alive, I matter." It's the same light that shines in all of us, the reminder that we are connected to every wild thing through the simple, profound fact of being alive on this Earth together, of evolving together, of being made of the same molecules and atoms, of hurtling through space on a beautiful pale blue dot we call home.
β¨ When you meet the gaze of these painted beings, you're not just looking at wildlife, you're looking into the eyes of your kin, your wild family, and perhaps, if you let yourself, you might remember the wild that is in you, too.
Pricing in Australian Dollars
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45x50cm | Framed |
$1,800 AUD
Southern Wild | 45x50cm
Pale Grace | 45x50cm | π΄ SOLD
Wild wonders
Sometimes the most profound connections happen in the quietest moments. These intimate portraits invite you to lean in close, to meet the gaze of beings we might otherwise overlook in our daily lives.
A Corella's playful spirit, the Tawny Frogmouthβs ability to shapeshift into trees during the daytime, the jewelled colours of Gouldian Finches, more delicate and vibrant than any bloom, the story of time held in the wonder of feathers of Red-tailed Cockatoo.
Each small painting is a world unto itself, a reminder that wonder lives in every scale. When we learn to see the extraordinary in what seems ordinary, we begin to remember our place in the great web of life that surrounds us every day.
π In our busy world, these small encounters offer something precious - the gift of presence, the medicine of really seeing and being seen, and a reminder each time you gaze upon them that you, too, are wild.
Pricing in Australian Dollars
(please disregard currency converter on this page only)
$800 AUD
$1,000 AUD
$1,200 AUD
23x30cm | Framed |
30x35cm | Framed |
30x40cm | Framed |
Shadow Country | 30x40cm | π΄ SOLD
Wild Still | 30x35cm
Here, Breathing | 23x30cm
This is Australia | 23x30cm
Night Watcher | 23x30cm
Present Tense | 30x40cm
About the artist
Natalie Eslick is an Australian wildlife artist whose work bridges the space between traditional painting techniques and contemporary connection to place. Based on the coast of New South Wales, she creates intimate portraits of native wildlife that invite viewers to see these remarkable beings not as distant subjects, but as wild kin deserving of reverence.
Through her art and teaching, Natalie guides others back to their own creative wildness while fostering deeper connections with the natural world. Her philosophy is simple: we are not separate from the wild world, we are part of it, and every brushstroke is an opportunity to remember this ancient kinship.
"(t)here is still life" marks Natalie's first solo exhibition, celebrating over a decade of dedication to wildlife art and her belief that in learning to truly see the extraordinary beings who share our land, we might also find our way back to our own wild hearts.
Her work has been featured in galleries and sold internationally, but her greatest joy comes from witnessing the transformation that happens when people give themselves permission to create, and to remember their wild heart
Exhibition Details
Field Trip Gallery
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
Brisbane, Queensland
August 22nd - September 3rd
Opening event: Fri 22nd August, 4:00 β 7:00 PM
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Friday 22nd Aug: 10am - 4pm (Preview) + 4pm - 7pm (OPENING)
Saturday: 10am - 4pm
Sunday: 10am - 2pm
Monday: Closed (viewing by apt)
Tuesday: Closed (viewing by apt)
Wednesday: 10am - 1pm
β¨ To purchase works, or inquire further, please contact Field Trip Gallery here β¨