Jacinda Bayne
"Looking and seeing are two different things. It is only when I paint or draw what I am looking at that I truly see what is there."
Jacinda Bayne is a New Zealand–born contemporary landscape artist based in Fremantle, Western Australia, celebrated for her emotive, semi-abstract paintings. Inspired by her extensive travels and deep connection to place, Bayne layers translucent oil glazes with intuitive mark-making to create luminous, dreamlike landscapes that invite reflection, memory, and a quiet sense of belonging.
Her process often begins with travel to sites of inspiration, where she records impressions through watercolours and sketches. In the studio, these observations evolve over months of layering and glazing—alternately adding and removing paint—to achieve a depth of light and colour that defines her work. Describing herself as an “emotive colourist,” Bayne uses colour as a visual language to convey mood, memory, and the essence of place.
Since graduating in 1997 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Otago Art School in Dunedin, New Zealand, Bayne has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally, including solo shows in New York at Anderson Contemporary and the Australian Consulate.
