The timed auction ends Thursday August 6th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Abby Whiteley Greeff
Grounded in nature, 2025
Oil stick, oil paint and oil pastel
Height 110 cm x Width 90 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $1,100
Rooted in earthy tones and blooming with vibrant colour, this work reflects the strength, stillness, and vitality we draw from the natural world. Created with layers of gestural marks and thick oil paint, this work continues to reveal itself to the viewer. Oil paint, oil stick and oil pastel on canvas. Framed in white painted oak.
Artist Bio: Abby Whiteley Greeff is a multidisciplinary artist based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. With a decade-long background in interior design, Abby brings a refined understanding of space, composition, and texture to her visual art practice. Her shift to full-time painting emerged from a deeply personal place — the loss of her father to an aggressive form of dementia. In processing this grief, painting became a way to preserve memory and capture fleeting emotional landscapes.
Her practice is guided by intuition and emotional truth, influenced by her creative lineage — Abby is related to renowned Australian artist Brett Whiteley. She works predominantly in oils and acrylics, using layered brushwork and softened tones to evoke a sense of memory, stillness, and transformation. Her paintings often explore nature, family, and the ephemeral moments of connection that shape our lives.
Abby’s work is both personal and universal, capturing the tension between holding on and letting go. With each piece, she seeks to blur the line between reality and recollection — preserving what is felt rather than what is seen. Her compositions invite viewers to slow down, to reflect, and to feel.
Through her art, Abby offers an ongoing exploration of presence, loss, and renewal an invitation to honour beauty in the ordinary and find peace in change.