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Simone Manganelli (Moisky)
AUSTRALIA
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"Colour is the feeling before the thought arrives fully."
Simone Manganelli, who signs her work under the name Moisky, is a self-taught painter and poet whose creative identity is inseparable from the rhythms of intuition and emotional current. Born under the sign of Pisces in February, she moves through the world with a heightened sensitivity to feeling, and that sensitivity finds its most honest expression on canvas. Her work does not begin with a plan or a predetermined outcome; it begins with a pull, something internal and wordless that guides the hand before the mind has time to intervene. This instinctive mode of working is not accidental but deeply considered, a commitment to trusting the body's intelligence over intellectual control. The result is a body of work that carries the unmistakable quality of lived experience translated directly into visual form, unfiltered and fully present.
The French Fisherman | Acrylic
$500
23.6 x 19.7
An unlikely encounter
What distinguishes Moisky from many of her contemporaries is her dual practice as both a painter and a poet. Rather than treating these as separate disciplines, she has developed a working method in which words and colour exist in continuous dialogue, each informing and deepening the other until the boundary between them dissolves entirely. A poem might begin a painting, or a painting might demand a poem to complete its meaning. This reciprocal relationship between language and image gives her work a layered resonance that operates on multiple registers simultaneously. Viewers who spend time with her canvases often find themselves reaching for words, while readers of her poetry frequently report seeing colour. That crossover is not coincidental; it is the precise effect she seeks.
Hold Over Me | Acrylic
$500
23.6 x 19.7
That feeling of days you feel trodden on!
Colour in Moisky's practice is not decorative. It functions as a primary carrier of emotional information, deployed with the same intentionality that a composer brings to a musical key. Her palettes are vivid and saturated, built from bold fields that press against each other with energy and tension, yet the overall effect is rarely chaotic. There is an underlying structure to her compositions, a sense of visual weight being balanced and counterbalanced, even when the imagery itself appears loose and spontaneous. Saturated blues sit beside burning yellows, heavy greens anchor floating forms, and the result is a kind of visual intensity that demands engagement rather than passive observation. Colour, for Moisky, is the first language and often the last word.
"Every canvas starts where words finally run completely out."
The figures and characters that populate her canvases occupy a space somewhere between the personal mythological and the universally recognisable. Cartoon-like in their simplified outlines yet complex in their emotional registers, these characters carry the weight of human feeling without the burden of realistic representation. They are not portraits of specific people but rather personifications of interior states: the playful, the chaotic, the searching, and the strange. Heavy black outlines contain forms that seem to push against their own boundaries, and this tension between containment and expression gives her figures a quality of arrested motion, as though they have been caught mid-thought. The characters Moisky creates belong to a visual mythology entirely her own.
Urban Chaos | Acrylic
$500
39.3 x 39.3
A beautiful piece where there is a story in every corner
Evokes a sense of power!
Strong Stance | Acrylic
$500
35.5 x 23.6
Nothing in Moisky's work is over-refined. Surface texture, the visible evidence of the brush, the raw energy of a mark made quickly and with commitment, all of this remains deliberately legible on the canvas. She has made a conscious decision to resist the impulse to polish away the signs of making, because those signs are where the life of the painting lives. The honesty of an unguarded stroke carries more meaning than a perfected surface could. This approach aligns her with a tradition of expressive painting that values authenticity over technical virtuosity, and it gives her work an immediacy that connects with viewers across cultural and generational lines. What you see on the canvas is exactly what happened.
"There is a moment in every painting when it stops being mine and starts asking its own questions. That moment is what keeps me working."
"People sometimes ask why my figures look the way they do, why they are cartoonish, outlined in black, not quite human and not quite anything else. The honest answer is that they look the way feelings look when you stop trying to make them presentable. When you let a character emerge without correcting it toward something more acceptable, what you get is something truer than realism ever managed. My figures are not distorted. They are just not hiding. And neither, when something is working, am I."
Her practice operates at the intersection of the childlike and the emotionally charged, two qualities that might seem contradictory but that Moisky holds in productive tension. The playfulness of her imagery, the cartoon logic of her characters, the bold graphic quality of her compositions, is not naivety but a deliberate return to a state of creative freedom that most adults have been trained to abandon. Children draw without fear of judgment, without concern for correctness, and it is precisely this freedom that Moisky works to recover and sustain. At the same time, the emotional weight carried by her work is unmistakably adult, born from genuine experience and genuine feeling. The childlike surface and the emotionally complex interior are not in conflict; they are what make her paintings whole.
Unordinary | Acrylic
$500
35.5 x 23.6
Unbound !
As a self-taught artist, Moisky developed her visual language outside the framework of formal instruction, and this has given her work a particular quality of self-determination. She was not shaped by the expectations of a curriculum or the tastes of an academy; she was shaped by her own curiosity, her own failures, and her own discoveries. This path requires a particular kind of courage, the willingness to trust one's own perception without the validation of institutional authority, and it has resulted in a visual voice that is genuinely singular. The absence of formal training is not a gap in her development but a condition of her originality. What she knows, she learned by doing, and what she does, no one else does in quite the same way.
Can't Get Close Enough ! | Acrylic
$500
23.6 x 19.7
This painting depicts our vulnerable side ,I have a beautiful poem to accompany this piece !
Poetry and painting share, in Moisky's understanding, a common architecture: the construction of meaning from materials that resist it. A word pressed against another word creates a tension that neither word carries alone. A colour placed beside another colour does the same. She approaches both practices with the same patience and the same willingness to be surprised, following the work wherever it leads without forcing it toward a predetermined conclusion. This openness is structural, built into her process from the first mark, and it accounts for the quality of discovery that her finished works retain. Even completed canvases seem to be in the middle of becoming something, as though the process never fully closes.
A cheeky street art vibe!
Smokey Tunes | Acrylic
$500
23.6 x 19.7
"My characters know things about me that I don't."
Happy Days! | Acrylic
$500
35.5 x 23.6
A truely happy piece will bring warmth!
Moisky's ambition for her work is not primarily aesthetic. She wants her paintings to provoke a response, to create the conditions for an encounter between the viewer's inner world and her own. Whether that response takes the form of recognition, unease, joy, or the particular quality of wonder that arrives without explanation, the goal is engagement rather than admiration. She is building what she describes as a conversation, a sustained exchange across the space of the canvas in which neither side holds all the meaning. Viewers bring their own memories, associations, and emotional histories to her work, and those contributions are not incidental but essential. The painting is incomplete without the encounter.
Home bound depicts a sense of colourful joy when spending time with loved ones!
Home Bound | Acrylic
$600
35.5 x 23.6
Every canvas Moisky produces is an original work, made by hand, shaped by the specific conditions of a specific moment, and carrying the evidence of that moment within it. Her practice is ongoing and accumulative, each painting adding a new chapter to a visual narrative that spans years of committed making. The invitation she extends is not simply to look but to enter, to step into a space where the rules of ordinary visual experience are suspended and where imagination, in all its rawness and colour and strangeness, is the only guiding principle. Her work stands as proof that the most compelling art often emerges not from certainty but from the willingness to follow something unknown wherever it leads.
The Last Bite | Acrylic
$500
35.5 x 23.6
The last bite is a feeling of knowing your going to be taken advantage of however choosing to ignore the signs!
"Raw marks tell the truth that finished surfaces hide."
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