The timed auction ends Thursday August 27th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Abby Whiteley Greeff
The view from McKay Reserve, 2026
Oil on canvas, framed in oak
Height 140 cm x Width 90 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $3,200
View from McKay Reserve to Pittwater captures the glowing stillness of dusk as the landscape dissolves into vivid colour and movement. Painted in layered pinks, violets and deep crimson tones, the work looks across the bushland toward Pittwater, where silhouetted trees bend and stretch against a luminous sky.
Expressive brushwork and rich oil textures evoke the feeling of warm evening light moving through the Australian landscape — balancing intensity with softness and atmosphere.
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.
Dimensions:
140 cm x 90 cm