Marilou Palazon is a contemporary Australian artist. She has been painting large-scale botanicals, Australian Birds, and water themes for over 20 years. She treats them more like dramatic landscapes — exploring textures, ranges, light play and folds.

Choosing to eliminate a “feminine” reference, Palazon instead emphasises the theatrical and sculptural play of form in a contemporary and monumental scale. Adopting a realistic style, Palazon employs expressive and loose brushwork and unfinished areas that allow the viewer to fall into the work and to travel across the surface. Yet, within her love of realism, there is no desire for hyper-realism — not needing to explain every detail. Instead she keeps the surface texture full of painterly brush strokes and glaze work. Ragged markings are used to lift the energy of the piece, rather than the stillness and precision of a still life.

Palazon acknowledges layered emotional and historical content for water, florals and birds – a long recognised passion in art – from Renaissance to Impressionist masters or classical platforms. Exploring universal themes of beauty, time, fragility, life, death, decay and birth.

Marilou is a graduate of COFA, UNSW, Sydney and holds a degree and Graduate diploma in Visual Arts. She lives on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia with her family.