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Pilar Basa
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About my art


My fine art practice is rooted in illustration, most often using gouache, watercolour, and pigment markers on paper. I love to explore themes of nature and human connection—our relationships with ourselves, with one another, and with natural and constructed worlds. My practice is a space where I can pause and explore the patterns that sit beneath our everyday thoughts and behaviours.

I’m passionately interested in how we connect to the natural world, and what that relationship reveals about who we are. I am also drawn to still life methods of story telling - its cultural and personal symbolism provide an opportunity for understanding, whilst its compositional mode is an intriguing exercise of control and connection.

Art for me has became a safe place to slow down and explore. Without realising it at first, I now find that my practice mirrors forms of meditation—an attention to small things, to silence, to reducing the noise of the world around. I hope my drawings offer that same quiet space to others: a moment to soften, to observe, and to sit gently with thoughts.
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View fullsize A Wattle Story
View fullsize Are We Home Yet? (detail)
View fullsize Abundance in a Vase no.1
View fullsize Abundance in a Vase no.1 (detail)
View fullsize There Was No Toilet Paper
View fullsize The Rubbish is Our (close up)
View fullsize For Tom
View fullsize Are We Home Yet?
View fullsize Button and Bee
View fullsize A Fried Egg Please
View fullsize Blue Banded Bee Band
View fullsize Abundance in a Vase no.1 (detail)
View fullsize The Rubbish is Ours
View fullsize Fi's Semillon
View fullsize Oh Shit, There's a Raven in the Banksia
View fullsize Variegated Fairy Wren
View fullsize There's Weren't Stolen From my Neighbour's Garden, I Swear
View fullsize An Adhesive Bandage
View fullsize Banksia Coccinea
View fullsize Banksia Baxteri
View fullsize Banksia Integrifolia

Pilar Basa acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia, in particular the people of the Eora Nation, the land on which I work. I pay respect to Elders past and present, recognising their continuous connection to the land, waters, and culture.