My name is Nel Davis and I am always happy turning daydreams into beautiful watercolours. I usually employ a limited palette to explore light and colour in landscape painting.
There is so much that watercolour has to teach me. Every day seems to bring a new discovery on technique and expression. I’m loving the journey.
What have I been doing?
Education
Short courses, studied under:
Krista Brennan and Tony Belobrajdic
Awards
Highly Commended CHAS annual art awards, small painting 2025
Finalist, Northern Beaches Gallery Summer Exhibition 2023, 2024
Highly Commended CHAS annual art awards, watercolour 2024
Winner of Central Coast Watercolour Society October Challenge 2024
Winner of Castle Hill Art Society (CHAS) annual art awards, small painting section 2023
Winner of CHAS Christmas Challenge 2023
Curation
2025: Curation of the “Grassfed Artists” Autumn-Winter exhibition at The Verandah Gallery
2024: Initiation and curation of the inaugural Art Show at The Verandah, Beecroft, presenting the works of the “Grassfed Artists”
Private and gallery exhibitions
2025: Bloomfield Fine Art Gallery, Terrigal, resident artist
2025: Solo and group exhibitions at The Verandah Gallery
2024: Grassfed Artists at The Verandah
2023-2024: Continuous small group exhibition at Copa Beachside, Copacabana NSW
2024: Gosford RSL – Exhibition of selected works of Central Coast Art Society
2023, 2024: 5 Lands Walk Connections Art Exhibition, Avoca NSW
2022, 2023, 2024: Copa Creative triannual exhibitions, Copacabana NSW
Group exhibitions
2023, 2024, 2025: Central Coast Watercolour Society biannual exhibitions, Gosford NSW
2023, 2024, 2025: Central Coast Art Society biannual exhibitions, Gosford NSW
2023, 2025: Hornsby Art Society biannual exhibitions, Sydney
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025: Kur-ing-gai and Castle Hill Art Societies, NSW
2023, 2025: Royal Agricultural Show, Sydney
Collections
Paintings in private collections. Including
2024-25: 55 works acquired
2023-24: 59 works acquired
2022-23: 33 works acquired
Commissions
Twenty paintings commissioned since 2023 for private collections.
More “Colour”
- Exhibitions
- Art in a room
- This Artist’s Poem
- Silk sand
- Opening night
- All about watercolour
- Meet the Grassfed Artists – 1 – 25 July 2025
- Meet the Grassfed Artists – 8 – 30 June 2025
- Meet the Grassfed Artists – 28 April – 8 June 2025
- Meet the Grassfed Artists – 26 March – 27 April 2025
- So happy to be a finalist