Dinah Wakefield - The Light Within
All my life I have been fascinated by the light within, that essential essence that exists under the surface of our everyday reality. It is this light that I seek to capture in my paintings.
Every painting starts as a leap of faith. I invite the light into my garden studio and I allow it to unfold and express itself in its own unique way. Sometimes I have an idea of where that light will take me and other times I don’t. I simply allow the paint brush to flow across the canvas in a fluid and organic way.
I consider myself a landscape painter but I don’t paint the landscape that I see. I paint the landscape that I experience. In every moment, there is an opportunity for life to not only express itself in the landscape, but also as paint on a canvas. In that moment, the canvas becomes the landscape and the light becomes the artist. The ocean. The trees. The clouds. All of the elements of my work are created that way.
I have been painting for over 25 years, but this website is a presentation of my recent body of works. They are paintings from the Noosa coastline, waterways and hinterland. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed the process of painting them.
Dinah Wakefield
Recent Exhibitions
In Our Backyard, 2018
Noosa Regional Gallery, Australia
Noosa Open Studios, 2017/18
Noosa, Australia
City Recital Hall Exhibition, 2018
Sydney, Australia
The Other Art Fair, 2017
Sydney, Australia
Studio Visits
If you are in the Noosa Region and would like to see more of my art, please visit Bedouin Traders or contact me to arrange a visit to my Studio in Peregian Beach.









