A Homage.
Original artwork by Rebecca Raveane, created in Forster, NSW, Australia.
Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, pastels, and pencil on timber board.
28cm (W) x 35cm (H) x 2cm (D).
A homage to growing up with undiagnosed ADHD.
In “A Homage,” contemporary abstract artist Rebecca Raveane offers a deeply personal and richly expressive work, honouring the complexity of growing up with undiagnosed ADHD. Created in her vibrant Forster studio, this mixed media piece serves as both a cathartic reflection and an act of self-compassion. Raveane invites the viewer into the neurodivergent experience — one of overstimulation, fragmentation, and searching for belonging — all rendered in a joyful yet chaotic explosion of colour and symbolism.
The face at the centre of the composition, with wide, curious eyes and richly detailed cheeks, anchors the work amid a sea of pattern, shape and mark-making. Her expressive gaze seems to ask: “Where do I belong?” Lines radiate from her face, connecting to disjointed but vividly coloured imagery — eyes, moons, flowers, and symbols — each representing fleeting thoughts, hypersensitivity, or emotional flashpoints. The exaggerated lashes and cosmic elements above her brows suggest an inner world alive with imagination, yet often misunderstood or dismissed.
Raveane's layering technique, using acrylics, inks, pastels, pencils and paint pens on raw timber board, is deliberate in its overwhelm. She allows colour to clash and spill, patterns to collide, and forms to hover without clear boundaries — a visual metaphor for how ADHD can distort the lines between focus and distraction, self-awareness and self-doubt. Yet despite this visual intensity, there is harmony in the chaos. Repetitive motifs, like eyes and stars, create rhythm and imply that a hidden structure exists within the unpredictability.
The timber boboardan intentional choice, is raw and tactile, adds a grounding quality. It reminds us of the physicality of the body and the reality of a life lived navigating a world not designed for neurodivergence. “A Homage” is not just a tribute — it is a reclamation of self-worth. Raveane reframes her childhood narrative through bold colour, unfiltered emotion, and intuitive mark-making, turning past confusion into a celebration of difference and resilience.
This is not a portrait of disorder, but one of dynamic identity — of a girl who grew up learning to see the world differently, and now paints that world with fearless honesty.
A Homage.
Original artwork by Rebecca Raveane, created in Forster, NSW, Australia.
Acrylic paint, acrylic ink, pastels, and pencil on timber board.
28cm (W) x 35cm (H) x 2cm (D).
A homage to growing up with undiagnosed ADHD.
In “A Homage,” contemporary abstract artist Rebecca Raveane offers a deeply personal and richly expressive work, honouring the complexity of growing up with undiagnosed ADHD. Created in her vibrant Forster studio, this mixed media piece serves as both a cathartic reflection and an act of self-compassion. Raveane invites the viewer into the neurodivergent experience — one of overstimulation, fragmentation, and searching for belonging — all rendered in a joyful yet chaotic explosion of colour and symbolism.
The face at the centre of the composition, with wide, curious eyes and richly detailed cheeks, anchors the work amid a sea of pattern, shape and mark-making. Her expressive gaze seems to ask: “Where do I belong?” Lines radiate from her face, connecting to disjointed but vividly coloured imagery — eyes, moons, flowers, and symbols — each representing fleeting thoughts, hypersensitivity, or emotional flashpoints. The exaggerated lashes and cosmic elements above her brows suggest an inner world alive with imagination, yet often misunderstood or dismissed.
Raveane's layering technique, using acrylics, inks, pastels, pencils and paint pens on raw timber board, is deliberate in its overwhelm. She allows colour to clash and spill, patterns to collide, and forms to hover without clear boundaries — a visual metaphor for how ADHD can distort the lines between focus and distraction, self-awareness and self-doubt. Yet despite this visual intensity, there is harmony in the chaos. Repetitive motifs, like eyes and stars, create rhythm and imply that a hidden structure exists within the unpredictability.
The timber boboardan intentional choice, is raw and tactile, adds a grounding quality. It reminds us of the physicality of the body and the reality of a life lived navigating a world not designed for neurodivergence. “A Homage” is not just a tribute — it is a reclamation of self-worth. Raveane reframes her childhood narrative through bold colour, unfiltered emotion, and intuitive mark-making, turning past confusion into a celebration of difference and resilience.
This is not a portrait of disorder, but one of dynamic identity — of a girl who grew up learning to see the world differently, and now paints that world with fearless honesty.
