Online viewing room · Hobart, Tasmania
Inès Moreau
Low Water — paintings of the Derwent and the Channel, 2024–26
Nine oil paintings about the hour after the tide goes out: silver mudflats, kelp moving in green light, salt drying on the marsh. Walk the three rooms, then click any painting to look closer.
Room I
Tide
Most mornings Inès walks the foreshore at Blackmans Bay and marks where the waterline sits at six. These paintings start from those pencil notes: flat water, silver light, the moment before the tide turns.
Room II
Kelp forest
Giant kelp has largely gone from Tasmania's east coast. This room is partly a record of what's still there: painted from memory and a waterproof notebook after swims off the Tasman Peninsula.
Room III
Salt
Saltmarsh at Ralphs Bay and sea fog in the Channel. The quietest paintings in the show, and the whitest: built up in thin layers, then scraped back until the linen shows through.
End of the rooms
Thank you for walking through.
Nine paintings, 2024–26, all oil on linen. Everything on the walls is available; prices shown are sample prices for this demo.
About
Painter, swimmer, early riser.
“I paint the hour when the tide has gone out and hasn't decided to come back. Nothing is happening, and everything is.”
Inès Moreau grew up in Lyon and moved to Hobart in 2014. She works from a first-floor studio in North Hobart on large linen canvases, usually several at once, and leaves each one alone for a week between layers.
Her paintings are not views of particular places so much as weather reports: how cold, how still, how much light was on the water. Titles give the place and, sometimes, the time.
Alongside the studio she teaches a small Saturday painting class for adults (six people, all materials supplied) each term.
- WalkSame stretch of shore, same hour, for weeks. Pencil notes, no photos.
- LayerThin, fast layers of oil with plenty of drying time. Up to fourteen per painting.
- ScrapeA palette knife takes most of it back off. What survives is the painting.
Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions
- 2026Low WaterSolo exhibitionCarrick Lane Gallery, Hobart
- 2025Salt LinesGroup exhibitionOld Cannery Space, Launceston
- 2024Tidal NotesTwo-person showWeir Street Studio, Cygnet
- 2023Small Works, Big WeatherGroup exhibitionHarbour Rooms, Hobart
- 2022Bruny Island studio residencySelf-directed, 6 weeksBruny Island, TAS
Sample exhibition history for a fictional artist: the venues are made up.
Studio visits
Come and see the paint up close.
The studio is in North Hobart, up one flight of stairs above a picture framer. On the first Saturday of each month it's open from 10 am to 3 pm, with half-hour visits so there's room to stand back from the big canvases.
Other days are by appointment. If stairs are a problem, say so: works can be brought down to the framer's ground-floor room.
The kettle is always on. Calm dogs are welcome; wet paint isn't dog-proof.
Open studio
First Saturdays · 30-minute visits
Pick a Saturday and a time.
Enquire
Enquire about a work
Before you ask
Works leave the studio crated from Hobart. Freight within Australia is quoted at cost; most paintings arrive in about a week.
Commissions open twice a year, for two or three paintings each time. A commission starts with a walk together, not a colour swatch.
Prices on the labels are sample prices in AUD, including GST.