About Martin Guinness and artworks
Welcome to my website, whether you want buy original abstract art or just check out images of my work (below).
I am a contemporary abstract painter based in Australia working within a lineage of lyrical abstraction (the same school as Wassily Kandinsky, Helen Frankenthaler, and Cy Twombly) exploring memory, nature, and perception.. I welcome anyone who wants to buy abstract art, and is looking for work suitable for contemporary interiors needing a calm, atmospheric focal point. My work sits between landscape memory and emotional abstraction. My practice explores perception, memory, and the natural world, favouring contemplation and emotional resonance over gestural immediacy or spectacle.
Working primarily in acrylics on canvas, I build layered, textured surfaces through a considered and intuitive process. Rather than relying on spontaneous action, each painting develops slowly, allowing forms, colours, and rhythms to emerge through sustained engagement with the surface. This approach reflects an interest in how meaning accumulates over time — through memory, attention, and lived experience.
My paintings are often informed by the natural world, not as representation, but as felt experience: light, atmosphere, movement, and the subtle shifts that occur between inner and outer worlds. The work seeks to create spaces for quiet reflection, inviting viewers to slow down and engage with ambiguity, stillness, and emotional nuance.
Each piece functions as both a visual anchor and an atmospheric field, where their distinctive surfaces create a sense of calm, depth, and quiet contemplation. My work is often chosen for modern residential and architectural spaces
All work is for sale and is generally sold unframed. Please contact the artist at lifedancer.publish@gmail.com for details.
Drawing on a background in film, writing/storytelling, and psychology, my work navigates the tension between structure and intuition. Each painting evolves through a process of layering and response, allowing the surface to reveal its own internal logic over time.
Come and visit me in my studio/gallery in Woollahra (Sydney), NSW
To arrange a visit or make inquiries generally or about any work in particular, please contact me below:
Instagram: @martinguinness_artist
Please see dimensions and prices of all works lower down the page
All prices are in AUD (Australian dollars)
and are the price direct from the artist.
They do not include delivery
'Regeneration and Renewal' explores the expressive potential of gesture and chromatic intensity. This large painting presents a dialogue between visceral motion and meditative stillness.
'Yatra', meaning "journey" in Sanskrit, with its sweeping arcs and intersecting lines traverse a radiant yellow field, suggesting movement, transition, and the fluid geometry of experience.
'Beneath Still Waters' grew out of a desire to work within calm while allowing subtle tensions to surface. Rather than directing the image toward a fixed meaning, I allowed the painting to unfold as a kind of listening exercise, producing a highly calming result.
''Oh the Morning Glory', a feature painting, unfolds like a burst of beautiful colours awakening—an abstracted garden moment caught at the very instant light touches bloom. Modern interior art to enjoy.
''Birth of a Golden Dragon' is a large, heavily textured abstract meditation on fortune, vitality, and the momentum of “becoming”. The interplay of radiant red and shimmering gold evokes both cultural symbolism and personal aspiration – red as the pulse of life and energy, gold as the promise of prosperity and achievement.
'The Bringer of Joy and Happiness', destined to do just that on a daily basis.
'Coelicus', inspired one day by lying on my back in the garden as two airplanes streamed above.
'A Manifesto for Vulnerability', suitable for a home or an office wall, delves into the radical act of openness — not as a passive state, but as a luminous gesture of courage in an age defined by retreat and concealment.
Chloris Aphrodite Kali Helios
The Goddesses of Spring is a series of abstract expressionist works that contemplate nature as a living lineage. Each painting presents a single bloom emerging from a shared field of soft, atmospheric pink — together they evoke a sisterhood of natural forces — related, yet distinctly individual.
'The Kiss', an abstract view of the meeting of two souls, multicoloured and multi-faceted
'Traces of Spring', where vivid green and blue gestures appear to drift across a textured pink field, loosely bounded by a network of fine, dark lines, reflects how memory operates: fractured, layered, and gently contradictory
'Luscious Dreams'. A gorgeous explosion of colour to brighten anyone's day, and add joy to the room.
'The Phantom Galaxy'.. An abstract view of Galaxy M74 (commonly called The Phantom Galaxy), a grand-design spiral galaxy located roughly 32 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.
'Incendio'. With its interplay of texture and hue, this large work engages the emotive potential of chromatic saturation and gestural immediacy to evoke a terrain of sensory intensity.through the layering of incandescent reds, striking oranges, and spontaneous linear disruptions
'What Rises Remains'. This work continues my exploration of perception, emergence, and the emotional resonance of colour and surface.
'The Three Communities Series' Three smaller works - mixed media on canvas and board
'Fluvius'. With a palette saturated with dense greens, aqueous blues, and flashes of red and pink, I explore the visceral dialogue between movement and matter, invoking a visual topography that resists fixed interpretation.
'Birth of the Golden Dragon'. A large abstract meditation on fortune, vitality, and the momentum of “becoming”. The luscious interplay of radiant red and shimmering gold evokes both cultural symbolism and personal aspiration, with the promise of prosperity and achievement.
'The Space the Wind Carries'. A very large work - acrylic on board - unfolds as a constellation of textured colour-fields - loose, atmospheric formations that drift across a pale ground. Rust reds, deep greens, ochres and indigos settle in cloud-like clusters, as if marking fleeting states of weather or memory.
'TreeSea Change', exploring a time in one's life for something new. Acrylic on board.
'Memorising' is a vibrant abstract expressionist work that draws inspiration from the inner architecture of the brain – specifically a memory-related brain cell.
'Joseph's New Coat', drawn from the bible story of Joseph's coat of many colours.
'Fragments of a Memory'. This abstract work navigates the space between form and feeling, intention and instinct. Vibrant red masses, edged with yellow, suggest presence - bold, pulsing, and alive
'Summer Joy' is an exploration of the exuberance that I feel in the presence of nature’s vitality - its colours, its rhythms, its capacity to uplift.
'Eruption of Silence'. This work emerged from an exploration of gesture and spontaneity — the moment where control gives way to instinct. The yellow ground represents both light and intensity, a space of emotional heat. Onto it, I introduced red, black, and white as opposing forces: passion, shadow, and spirit.
'Internal Landscapes' This painting explores the tension between intensity and release through gestural fields of red and pink, interrupted by cooler turquoise forms. The composition suggests shifting internal landscapes—states of pressure, pause, and permeability—where colour becomes both structure and emotion.
''Mapping the Invisible'.. This work emerges from a fascination with the unseen structures that guide our lives. In the end, this painting feels to me like a map that cannot be read in conventional terms, but one that resonates on a personal level
Details of sizes and prices below, as well as many more works
Birth of a Golden Dragon
Acrylic on canvas
121 x 91cm
$450
Regeneration and Renewal
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 101cm
$400
Traces of Spring
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm Framed
$300
Bali Sunset series
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
$275 each
Elysium
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 76cm
$400
Internal Landscapes
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 76cm
$350
Yatra
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 76cm
$500
Behind My Eyes
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 50cm
$350
Incendio
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 61cm
$450
Luscious Dreams
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$300
Ripples and Reflections of Sunset
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$250
Oh The Morning Glory!
Acrylic on canvas
122cm X 90cm
$600
The Early Days pentaptych
Acrylic on canvas
Each 30 x 25cm
$500 - the set
Explorare2
Acrylic on canvas
99 x 196cm
$600
My Happy Place
Acrylic on canvas
49 x 40cm
$250
3 Communities - Yellow
Mixed media
Acrylic and net on canvas
30 x 23cm
Multiculturalism
Mixed media
Acrylic and net on canvas
36 x 28cm
$200
Galaxy M74
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 50cm
$400
3 Communities - Orange
Mixed media
Acrylic and net on board
30 x 23cm
$450- the set
3 Communities -
Red
Mixed media
Acrylic and net on canvas
30 x 23cm
l'arrivo (the arrival)
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 90cm
$500
Coelicus
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$250
Palimpsest with triskele
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$250
Fluvius
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$250
A Manifesto for Vulnerability
Acrylic on canvas
49 x 59cm
$400
Invasion of the Dental Flossers
Dental flossers on carpet tile
40 x 49cm
$400
What Rises Remains
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$300
Eruption of Silence
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40cm
$350
Bringer of Joy and Happiness
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$350
Closing the Distance Between Us
Acrylic on canvas
76 x76cm
$400
Fragments of a Memory
Acrylic on canvas
76 x 60cm
$400
Tree/Sea Change
Acrylic on board
49 x 53cm
$350
Mapping the Invisible
Acrylic on canvas
45 x 45cm
$350
Memorising
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 91cm
$400
Nyctophilia
Acrylic on canvas
49 x 53cm
$400
Joseph's New Coat
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$300
Genesis Code
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 26cm
$250
Legacy of the Golden Dragon
Acrylic on canvas
91 x 121cm
$600
Legacy of the Golden Dragon
Detail
The Goddesses of Spring series
Chloris
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$300
Aphrodite
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$300
Summer Joy
Acrylic on canvas
101 x 76cm
$400
Kali
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$300
Helios
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$300
What Rises, Remains
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30cm
$300
Beneath Still Waters
Acrylic on canvas
75 x 100cm
$400
Our Clients
