Chanel Durante is an Italian self-taught painter based in Sydney, whose practice explores the landscape as an emotional and psychological space. Working primarily in oil, she creates atmospheric scenes where nature becomes a vessel for memory, longing and introspection. Influenced by the misty landscapes of Northern Italy, her paintings move between recognition and abstraction, dissolving places into hazy, suspended environments. Through layered colour, softened forms and shifting light, Durante seeks to evoke rather than describe, capturing fleeting sensations and the quiet tension between belonging and elsewhere. Her intimate landscapes invite contemplation, offering spaces where stillness, memory and imagination converge, transforming personal experience into universal emotion.