Elle Pervez

We Make Our Own Light

70 × 60 cm

Acrylic on timber board with LED light

Closing: Thu, 19 Nov, 8 pm AEDT

4d 18h 15m

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About the work

We Make Our Own Light by Elle Pervez - This painting is about the light we each carry without knowing it. Out in the desert at night, the sky is so dark and clear that the moon and stars feel close enough to touch. But the moon only borrows its glow from the sun. We don’t need to. Our bodies give off a faint light of their own, about a thousand times too dim for our eyes to catch, and even the warm sand gives its heat back to the dark long after sunset. I painted a quiet desert landscape under a moon, then added a glowing LED over the top, because it felt right to let the painting make its own light too. A small reminder that we don’t need to wait for light to find us. We make our own.

A feast for the senses, this statement artwork brings soft, layered desert hills and a gentle moon to life with a warm glow that changes the mood of a room. It sits beautifully in a bedroom, living space or studio, and looks especially good in the evening when the lights go down.

Board size: 60w x 70h x 2d cm

Medium: Acrylic on timber board with LED light, and ready to hang

About the light: The LED sits over the top of the desert hills and moon, and is not dimmable, so it glows at one steady brightness. It’s energy-efficient and powered by a USB cord. Please note the cord is the only power supply included, so you’ll need a power bank or a USB wall adaptor to plug it into a power point. No extra wiring needed, so it can hang anywhere you like.

About the artist

Elle Pervez is a contemporary landscape artist and paints the Australian landscape, chasing the light as it changes over outback and country Australia. Elle Pervez is an Australian artist whose work is deeply informed by her upbringing between remote communities in the Northern Territory and a farm in rural New South Wales. Immersed from an early age in vast horizons and ever-shifting terrain, she developed a lasting connection to the Australian landscape, a connection that continues to shape and anchor her artistic practice.

Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Elle builds richly layered compositions. Her practice often incorporates mixed-media elements such as metallic gold leaf and oil stick, adding luminosity and depth to her textured surfaces. The interplay between abstraction and landscape is central to her work, allowing memory, emotion and place to merge on the canvas.

Elle’s paintings seek to evoke a sense of connection; to land, to light, and to something both personal and collective. Through intuitive mark-making and expressive colour, she translates the feeling of wide skies, desert air and open space into immersive visual experiences. Her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and find their own meaning within each piece. At its heart, her practice is about transformation and resonance, creating artworks that bring warmth, depth and vitality into the spaces they inhabit.

In recent collections, her practice has expanded to explore the idea of metamorphosis, the in-between spaces of becoming, awakening and self-return. Her work is guided by intuition, often beginning without a fixed plan and unfolding organically, allowing emotion to lead composition.

Elle has participated in many group shows and solo exhibitions across the country. Most recently Elle was a Finalist in Leda Gallery’s Emerging Art Prize 2025, Green, and Revival Art and Design Gallery’s Emerging Artist Prize 2026.

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