Capturing Beauty

"I felt in moments that the paintings were taking me on a journey through different stages of the feminine, the goddess energies," she said.

"I create mainly in oils. However, I do sometimes paint with pastels and acrylics. I have always loved detail. I love nature, the human body and faces and I love colour.

"There is so much beauty everywhere. I am constantly amazed at the colour and beauty within a person's skin, for instance."

Kinnear said she can feel the "essential oneness" within every living thing.

"My hope is that one day I will be able to powerfully express this essence, this beauty through my paintings," she said.

"I know that I continually grow and evolve through the process and joy of painting. With each one I am changed in some way."

She said her hope for her upcoming exhibition, showing at the Joondalup Art Gallery from August 3-15, was for her audience to feel something and be moved in some way with each painting.

"I have no expectations. However, I appreciate that art is very personal and each individual will experience something uniquely different " or nothing at all," she said.

"This is my first real exhibition. I sold my first paintings around the age of 13 or 14 and I decided then that this is what I wanted to do with my life.

"My mother paints and my grandmother painted as well, so I was surrounded by art all of my life."

She said putting Expressions from the Heart together had been a life-changing experience for her.

"I feel so strongly about art as my vocation and it is a joy for me to share these expressions from my heart with others," she said.