Vee BKL
Brisbane, Australia
Vee BKL is an abstract visual artist based in Australia. Her artistic process begins with inspiration drawn from natural shapes, textures, and colour combinations encountered during her walks and travels. The unpredictability of her materials lends an organic spontaneity to her work, while her detailed linework, executed with Posca and alcohol pens, introduces precision and balance.
Vee’s compositions are both meditative and immersive, inviting viewers to pause and uncover new perspectives within the intricate layers of color and form. Her art resonates with emotional depth, offering a sensory journey that blends natural beauty with the complexity of human experience, creating a space for personal reflection and connection.
Artist Interview
Q: You describe your work as inviting viewers to explore a new emotional landscape with every glance. Can you share a bit about your creative process and how you bring this vision to life on canvas?
A: My inspiration comes from the shapes and colours I find in nature. On my walks and travels, I often take photos of intriguing colour combinations or textures. I study the essence of natural forms, their patterns and fundamental characteristics, which I then use to create abstract representations.
When beginning a painting, I choose a specific colour palette and build it up with multiple layers of ink, exploring transparency, contrast, and colour intensity, in a mix of fluid shapes. I always have a theme in mind to guide me, whether it’s a forest, flowers, or corals. From there, I develop a library of abstract elements on the canvas that embodies the theme. I love to explore various iterations of a single base element, allowing it to grow, evolve, and multiply. With so much to see and discover in each finished piece, viewers are invited to pause and dive into this world of colours and details, making space to form their own story and connect with both the art and themselves. It’s a beautiful feeling!
Q: Your materials—inks, posca, and alcohol pens—seem to play a big role in shaping your work’s unique texture and fluidity. Can you tell us more about your choice of materials and how they allow you to explore movement and intricacy?
A: I use liquid watercolour and pigmented inks as the base for my backgrounds, as they allow me to play with transparency, gradients, colour vibrancy, and create fluid blends. I start with pours, sprays, dilutions, and pigment saturation, trying to guide the inks in certain directions and shapes. Ultimately though, the liquids move on their own and take their own form as they settle and dry on the canvas. It’s almost like a work of matter, sculpting with water and pigment, where the final shape remains unpredictable. Once the background is finished, I add intricate details with pens (Posca and alcohol-based), allowing for precision and intricacy, while keeping the details simple, mainly through combinations of flat colours.