Kayci resides on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, with her two beautiful boys, husband, and a menagerie of furry companions. Beginning her art journey in graphite, she has spent the last 15 years delving deep into the world of mixed media and oil painting, leading to the culmination of what now forms her unique artistic voice. A relentless optimist, bordering on the delightfully naïve, Kayci has always had a deep love and appreciation for all things creative. She is an author, an artist, a poet, a baker, a daydreamer, and a ball of creative chaos and wonderment. When it comes to fashion, her personal style is an elegant combination of pet hair, children’s handprints, and paint on literally everything. Her wardrobe is not divided into formal and casual wear, but rather clothes with paint on them and clothes with slightly less paint on them. Her studio often features a ragdoll cat or two on the office chair, an 8-year-old boy curled up reading under the desk, a 10-year-old boy drawing in the corner, a Pomeranian hoarding various treasures at her feet, a Golden Retriever with a mouthful of socks in the doorway, and a coffee mug covered in paint. This is her happy place.

The last decade gave Kayci the incredible blessing and honour of starting a young family, and the challenges that come with complex and at times heartbreaking, medical complexities of chronic illness. She is consistently inspired and humbled by the strength and poise of her little family of four, and the courage and relentless determination that they have shown in the face of their health challenges. While the deep love of creation never left her, Kayci placed her art journey on hold for this time, basking in the blessing that it was to be carer and support system for her family. It was her family that encouraged her to pursue her love of creativity once again, and 2023 saw her enroll and complete training with the Milan Art Institute to regain her confidence and rediscover her independence. She will be forever grateful for their love and support.

Kayci’s artwork is an intuitive marriage of realism and abstraction, chaos and refinement. She uses an array of mixed media materials to lay a foundation of pure expression, from which she builds her subject matter with beautiful rich oil paints. Her work explores the symbolism of both flora and fauna, combining them with female portraiture to capture the essence of moments and feelings, often left unnoticed. Kayci aims to inspire and uplift, working to change the narrative of what it means to be beautiful, worthy, and valued. She is deeply humbled and inspired by the innate beauty of simple pleasures, moments taken for granted, and the beauty of a life rich in harmony and compassion. Her vision is for a world where beauty comes from within and we embrace one another with open hearts and generous minds. She is excited for the prospect of a world where we awake with wonderment for the simple and we relearn what it means to find joy and bliss in small things. She seeks to conquer criticism and the suffocating weight of societal expectations with love, gratitude, and unrelenting optimism, to create a world of harmony, purity of spirit, and wide-eyed wonder for the elegant beauty of life itself.