With a truly international background and education as well as an appreciation for beauty and nature, not to mention an interest in a variety of art practices, it's not surprising Bonnardeaux should produce an individual style and technique in art. This is not just paper collage, it's a multi-layered process of mind and soul, eye and hand.

Kumi-e is a combination of different aspects of seeing and making. The artist blends the two Japanese craft practices of torn paper picture making and collage with aspects derived from European oil painting and glass mosaic, and Indonesian batik. The artist brings together her knowledge of  making paper, dying fabric and constructing with small pieces of colour to produce the most amazing images that not only depict attributes of nature but seem somehow to hold onto a whole history of making art.

The textural effect of these paper paintings give them as sense of other worldliness yet the imagery is firmly placed in Australia. Native flowers retain the same balance of delicacy and strength we find in nature. The colours are strong and bright yet they can be manipulated to suggest subtle hues. Who would have thought such small pieces of feathered edged hand-made paper could capture the total majesty of the Bungle Bungles.

Bonnardeaux's landscapes are quite amazing. We are used to hard edged representations of the North West as seen in glaring light but these presentations create the same intensity of hue without the visual sharpness. As a result we feel welcomed into the tranquility of each image, even when it depicts a driving rain falling at a sharp angle from sodden clouds.

Bonnardeaux manipulates the individual qualities of her paper to construct her images; tearing, feathering edges, rolling pieces into short string for linear comments, building up layers while allowing echoes of the under layer to come through. One assumes making each image is a meditative process, slow and deliberate, yet the outcome is vibrant and lively. It is easy to imagine the production of this art as paralleling nature, a long unseen process of building up until, seemingly overnight, there is a vibrant floral carpet.

Do see this exhibition and don't consider it a collection of collages, understand it as a fascinating experience - for both the artist and yourself.