"At 27, I made the life-changing move from Argentina to Australia, fulfilling a long-held dream of living abroad. I’d always felt drawn to the English language and culture and, once there, I quickly found a sense of home, belonging, and creative inspiration.
A few years later, I reconnected with a passion I’d set aside for years—art. As a child, I liked drawing, but it was colour that truly captivated me. I began taking night classes in oil painting at Julian Ashton at The Rocks, and that creative spark returned." – Yani Lenehan
Painting from Bathurst NSW, Yani (pronounced Shani) paints from an overwhelming need to express with colour, and a fascination with the way colours interact. Her works blend graphic gradations of colour, strong lines, and clear shapes, with the softer, personally evocative genre of still life and flat tablescapes.