Bio

Shayle Flesser is an abstract painter based in Brisbane, Australia. Her work is an attempt to make sense of the world, rooted in the personal and reaching toward the universal. Painting is how she makes sense of things.

Working in acrylic, enamel and pigmented ink, Shayle builds her paintings in layers. Colour and texture arrive slowly, nothing resolved before it is ready. The work is bold but never without feeling. She paints at scale, in the belief that art should have a physical presence in a room.

Shayle works from her Brisbane studio, where she also serves as creative director of a small art production company.