Artworks – showcasing Trish’s portraits and other paintings
about Trish
Trish Le Moignan studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting in London and Illustration at Harrow College of Art.
Subsequent distractions from her path to becoming a full-time painter included taking a degree in Medieval Art & English Literature at Exeter University, being mother to two wonderful children (now wonderful adults) and teaching Suzuki Piano and Violin for 20 years in Hertfordshire, UK.
Moving to Australia in 2009 reawakened her love of drawing and painting and she established the Treetopz Art Studio high above Pittwater in Bilgola Plateau on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
A surprising journey of discovery started with abstracts and landscapes using coloured dots, fusing Australian Aboriginal colours and styles of painting with Impressionism, and some interesting experiments with acrylic moulding techniques.
Trish has always been deeply concerned about the trajectory of over-development and increasing waste of resources that she has witnessed in her own lifetime. She learned to appreciate the unique character of Australian native wildlife and plants and the beauty of the unspoiled Australian landscape – and concluded that we human beings urgently need to reconsider our position in the cosmos. As Indigenous Australians have always known, we need to be connected with the earth, which is our origin, our home and our destiny. She practises this Gaian philosophy by recycling and reusing sustainably, by limiting household waste and by regularly feeding thousands of worms, who conduct their own program of land regeneration in her compost bins.
Wanting to play her part as an eco-warrior, Trish created a series of stylised paintings of turtles, inspired by a visit to the turtle hatcheries on the beaches of Heron Island, on the Great Barrier Reef, and printed greeting cards and Christmas cards, with a share of the proceeds going to the Sea Turtle Foundation.