Kinga Csilla Journal — art

We're taking time to talk with Maddy Hodgetts, a Ngiyampaa and Wiradjuri artist who is busy making monumental things happen in the fashion industry. Where do we even start? Maddy runs her painting practice under the name Kapata Dreaming - @kapatadreaming - and then she also runs Yapa Mali - @yapamali - a clothing and accessory business based in Nyngan, NSW. Her design for Kinga Csilla - the Kali fabric pattern - speaks of Country, connection and waterways, and is expressed in the lushest, freshest blues and greens. What a delight. Tell us a bit about your own emerging label,...

Maddy Jovicic's paintings are about the joys of simple eating and drinking as the Romans do.

Think of pinks, sunshine yellows and warm deep primaries that speak of gelati, vino and antipasti crisscrossed with oil and lemon juice.

We're taking time to talk about rituals, art and treating yourself like a goddess.

We're taking time to chat with Sydney artist Britty Flynn about her emergent practice as a studio painter. 

Her works stand out to us by the way they evoke wildlife, dreams and playfully surreal still life arrangements, 

that might well place her with contemporaries such as Jess Locke or Jini Maxwell. We ask about work, play, and daily styling.

"Around the time I stopped doing Lemon, Melbourne went into its first lockdown. The last few years I had been wanting to paint again but I think I was a bit scared about starting. Lockdown provided me with the perfect storm...I wasn't able to work, I had my toddlers full time and my husband was still working long days every day in Construction"