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NICOLA MOSS SURFACE AND PATTERN

Stacks of paper adorn the studio benches waiting to be selected for a composition, cut out, and pasted onto canvas

icola Moss’ home-studio sits at the top of an alarmingly steep, twisting driveway overlooking a peaceful, hidden valley in the Gold Coast Hinterland. Just minutes from the ever-growing suburban sprawl of the city’s northern suburbs, this old dairy farming country, once known as Sullivan’s Farm, has been home and inspiration for Moss for over twenty years. Here she and her husband, Phil, have created the ideal home and studio for her rich paintings of surface and pattern. From multiple studio windows, windows that flood the space with the requisite

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