Cynthia Ellis is currently based in Sydney and an artist whose full time painting practice is central to the material of oil paint. The paintings are thick and painted onto traditional surfaces such as stretched linen, wood and sometimes more contemporary modes such as found objects and built structures. The oil paint reflects a process relating to the particulars of material and physical interaction alluding to expression in responses, which convey meanings that can be read into the painting. This visual experience of a unique individual reflection underlies the immediacy to the processes of the material, which extends to the natural organic changes that develop in time within the painting altering the materials initial outcome.