The birdsong touches a lower note, barely discernible, that holds my feet to the sand with the solidity of place and distance.

  • A colorful watercolor rainbow with multiple bands of different colors.

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  • Painting of a coastal landscape with cliffs, breking ocean waves, and a rockpool surrounded by marine plants and seaweed in the foreground.

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  • An art gallery interior with colorful paintings on white walls, a windows with outdoor view, a table with a patterned tablecloth and floral arrangement, and various art displays and furniture.

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    Living Space

Textiles and Wallpaper

Two timeless art forms — designed to be visceral, tactile, lived with

Original Artworks

Originals, prints, photography, and more — living worlds alive on your wall

Mixed media collage of a scene with flamingos in water, paper fish, a photograph of a boat, and various textured paper backgrounds in blue tones.

Art and body are my ways of being in the world

I share a love of creativity as it meets the stuff of our lives — in the body, in place, in relationship.

I’m Alisoun Neville. Crayons and Stuff holds the whole of my practice, threading together art, creative arts and somatic therapy, and ways of living with art through place, connection, and embodiment.

  • Across all of my work, and as a practicing artist, I'm interested in creativity, embodiment, and my relationships within the living world. I hope Crayons and Stuff can bring together creative arts and somatic (body-based) approaches in a relational and ethically grounded way.

    My approach has been shaped through long-term engagement with creative practice, relational ethics, and embodied living, as well as teaching, consultation, and leadership roles in therapeutic and community settings. I am trained in Arts Therapy (Masters level) and Somatic Experiencing®, and am a registered counsellor with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia.

  • I offer creative arts and somatic therapy for adults and children who are looking for grounded, experiential approaches — working with the body and creative process, not just conversation.

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    This can be helpful if you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck, or if you’re carrying experiences that are difficult to make sense of through words alone. A trauma-aware, collaborative framework guides the work.

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    Working together may involve art-making, exploring ways of being in the body, or other processes of inquiry. No art experience is needed. The focus is on process, not performance.

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    I am available for secure telehealth sessions across Australia and in person from Millowl / Phillip Island (Cowes and Newhaven).

  • My art practice is a sensory language of body and place — sharing how it grounds me in the senses and opens me to possibility. I sell paintings and prints through Living Space in Newhaven and online through my gallery here.

    Artful Weave Interiors extends my art practice into everyday spaces, in conversation with traditions of weaving and arts you can touch. These works translate original artworks into contemporary wallpapers, textiles, and other products designed to be visceral, tactile, and lived with. They are presented through Living Space in store in Newhaven and made to order online.

Child's drawing of a figure with a clown face, green outfit, and a party hat, sitting on a yellow and brown surface with pink and red background.
A small wooden puppet with pink felt hair, a smiling face drawn on a round head, wrapped in patterned cloth, standing on a wooden surface against a plain background.
Craft project with a clay foot and coloured paper ribbons, and a paper bag with a red heart.
A watercolor painting of a red heart surrounded by a network of spidery lines and shapes in shades of red.
A clay face sculpture with gray hair looking into a mirror.
Small handcrafted doll with a smiling face, long yarn hair, pink felt top, and brown fabric skirt, standing on a wooden base.
A collage featuring various cutouts of flowers, leaves, a bird, and nature scenes in different colors and styles.
A small penguin figurine with a black body, white belly, orange beak, and green eyes, sitting on a wooden surface.
A child-like drawing of a face with curly hair, big eyes, a small nose, and an oversized sad mouth. There is a heart drawn in red beneath the face.
Watercolour painting of a curvy, female gendered mid torso from the side in rich red colours.
Toy figurines including a female character in black and green with long black hair, an astronaut, a butterfly-shaped decorative item with blue stones, a small snowman, and a rock with the word 'HOPE' written on it, all arranged on sand.
Child with blonde hair wearing an orange shirt and green skirt, playing a trombone while musical notes float nearby against a cloudy blue sky.
Two wooden dolls, one with a smiley face and white yarn hair, standing next to a small figure wrapped more fully in fabric suggesting muslim clothing.
A collage of a child with arms raised, made from various cut-out magazine or paper pieces. The collage includes a speech bubble with 'SUPER ARTS' and a pink and red textured background with text that reads 'Harnessing the power of creativity for chil
Two children wearing colorful, decorated masks, one holding a small toy and the other raising their arm, sitting in front of a plain wall.

Creative Arts & Somatic Therapy

We can explore your stuff together — through arts, embodiment, words, or your unique combo

And come as you are — messy, uncertain, arts-hesitant ….

your invitation to explore →
A woman smiling and holding a small, curly-haired brown dog on a boat, with the ocean and a clear blue sky in the background.

  • Explore new art forms and be with others doing the same

  • Watch my dog form new relationships and take joy in his older ones

  • Immerse myself in water and take sand home in my bag

  • Sit with the difficult things in life, and let them have their space

  • Live with art & follow it as my teacher

  • Unravel the world through words and story

  • Attend to relationships with place, even when complex

  • Say yes even when scared, and trust my no

  • Dance and play trombone

I love to

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Close-up of a ground covering of green and variegated leaves with small red flowers amid fallen brown leaves.
Close-up of intertidal seaweed and seagrass on sand, mostly in browns, blacks, greens and creams, but with a small red cluster at the centre.
White fluffy seed dispersal structures among green leaves and brown twigs.
A flowering protea plant, with a large, cone-shaped pink and red flower head surrounded by pointed red bracts, among green leafy foliage.
Two women sitting at a round table in a cozy cafe, one pouring a drink for the other. The cafe has wooden and green painted walls decorated with colorful artwork and framed pictures, with a hanging light and a large window letting in natural light.
A torn piece of silk in indigo blue hanging from a tree branch surrounded by green foliage.
Colorful pink seaweed (red algae) washed up on a sandy beach.
Beach scene at sunset with a pier extending into calm water, a few people on the shoreline, trees on the right, and a picnic table in the foreground.
Woman with curly gray hair wearing glasses and a striped scarf, outdoors during daytime.
A small natural water pool in rich tannin colours surrounded by sandy and grassy terrain reflected in the pool.
Close-up of yellow flowers on a shrub with green leaves.
Close-up of a painted abstract featuring shades of green, yellow, and hints of blue, with textured brush strokes.

Make my healing contagious and outrageous.
Make my healing a party everyone is invited to.

Sophie Strand

Dark black text with shadow with the words 'Alisoun Neville Art'.
Dark black text with shadow with the words 'Alisoun Neville Art'.
Original artworks & prints
Original artworks & prints
Artful Weave wallpaper & textiles
Artful Weave wallpaper & textiles
Living Space Studio Gallery
Living Space Studio Gallery
A surreal painting of a long, slender weedy seadragon with large eyes, a long snout, and fins with pink accents, set against a textured gray background.
Acrylic layered landscape painting featuring three little penguins, trees, and a pink bird and moon in the sky.
Painting of a black bird surrounded by colorful waratah flowers, white blooms receding backwards, and green foliage.
Soft pastel artwork of a bird with a reddish-pink body and wings, flying against a background of blue and grey sky.
Acrylic painting of a vibrant nature scene with various colorful plants, rocks, and trees suggesting pools of water surrounded by mythical rocks and trees.
Colorful acrylic painting of a forest scene with trees, a stream, and lush greenery, with a mysterious bird figure standing behind a central tree.
A vibrant oil painting of lush tropical plants with various shades of green leaves, a large red heart-shaped flower, and a pink bird standing among the foliage, set against a colorful background with blue, green, pink, and purple hues.
An acrylic painting of a coastal bush scene with layered, almost ghostly trees in front of a vibrant sunset on ocean water, featuring shades of orange, purple, blue, green and gold.
A painting of a small tannin creek flowing alongside green and yellow reeds and plants with reddish and brown water and pink sand surrounding it.

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