Biography

Ines is a practicing artist whose experience spans 30 years. She has a degree in Fine Arts with hands-on experience in styling, photography and visual arts. She has crafted a niche business for backdrops for photography and art that serve commercial and personal audiences across the creative arts industry. Ines now collaborates with artisan makers, artists, stylists, interior designers, set designers, artistic directors and photographers to produce hand painted custom works. 

Ines was born into the world of baking, a daughter of Italian immigrant parents who ran a Bakery for 40 years in Brunswick. Here she learnt to feel with her hands to shape and form beauty, and to share this love with anyone that crossed her path.

Trained as a painter with a Bachelor in Fine Arts (graduated 1995), her deep rooted interest in food was the driving force behind her movement towards food photography and styling as a career. Taking a class in styling and merchandising (2016), she began to see food as art and props as tools to make food look incredible.  This industry opened up avenues for her creative interests, as she realised her love of set design, texture and surface in photography, pursuing work as a styling assistant and beginning to create backdrops of her own. 

In 2017 she turned these pursuits into her small business, and began selling works through Instagram. Initially her work was marketed for food and merchandise styling, but she quickly created a name for herself within Australia and internationally for clients across industries such as fashion and floristry. 

She now takes commissions for artworks alongside her extant practice in photography backdrops.  Ines prefers to work large scale and feels she brings an energy and a living force to the work, the breadth of the canvas sits as one in the environments she creates them for. Her artworks take her interest in texture further. She sees her artworks as almost relics, they embody an almost natural organic and raw presence.

Ines always knew her work contained everything she was ever taught, her artworks are the vessels that capture her perspective, taking inspiration from the textures and marks she sees in every surface all around her. The marks in her art are beaten into the surface by her hands and tools. She works in layers of paint and texture with non-traditional painting tools, such as trowels, cheesecloth, and sea sponges. Ines brings to her work a sincere appreciation for the imperfect: the cracks, grit and age that is often overlooked. 

Her paintings and backdrops look like they were created in another time, she wants you to feel as you do when you run your hand over a well worn piece of timber or stone. And to be reminded of the familiar warmth you feel when you see the patina of time that eventually touches all surfaces, natural or man made.