''My life is a canvas and I'm just painting each day as it comes''
Sandy Lee is a Hunter based painter with deep connections to heritage, country, culture, and spirituality. Although considered an emerging artist Sandy’s paintings have been decades in the making, with their stories and meaning developing long before she put paint to canvas.
Sandy’s Nan a painter and an Indigenous woman with a hidden culture, told Sandy from a young age that ‘she should find the work within’. True to this advice, over time Sandy developed a special painting practice that was entirely self-taught.
Having worked as an energy healer Sandy’s ability to visualize energy and colour is transcendent. Sandy candidly describes the way she can see human auras as colours. All within her mind’s eye she can visualize a sweeping bird’s eye view of her country, and illuminated flickers of light as waves roll in the ocean. The paintings have always been within.
As though Sandy’s paintings are embodied with the same healing energies that flow from her hands during Reiki sessions, viewers frequently report feeling spiritually connected and energized by her work.