New Works
A Spring curation of Chloe Caday’s latest Original Artworks available for purchase.
Original Artwork directly from the Studio
Exhibited as part of group exhibition, ‘Art For Takayna’, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, 116 Bathurst Street, Nipaluna, TAS
12 – 21 June 2026
Soft Morning Light I
Soft Morning Light II
Integrating memories of the landscape and objects from Caday’s motherland, ‘Under The Mango Tree’ quietly reflects on the resilience and strength of the mango tree, and its significance as a place of respire, after decades of floods and typhoons in her late grandparents’ home beside Laguna de Bay, Philippines.
Under The Mango Tree
90×110cm
$3900
Available Works
Above The Valley
35.5×35.5cm
$990
Gentle Autumn Breeze
35.5×35.5cm
$990
Winter’s Arrival
101×101cm
$3,500
Afternoon Trail
35.5×35.5cm
$990
Wineglass Bay
41×61cm
$1,250
First Moments
122×137cm
$4,600
Freycinet Light
35.5×35.5cm
$990
Last Light, Sleepy Bay
41×61cm
$1,250
Unattainable Silence
60×66cm
$1,900
Moon’s Gift, Takay Flower
Moon’s Gift, 2023, oil on linen, framed in Tasmanian oak, 92 x 122 cm, $3200
Chloe Caday’s, 'Moon’s Gift, Takay Flower', is part of her series, 'Diwata’s Song'. Tracing back to pre-colonial Philippines, Chloe Caday retells stories of her motherland through 'Diwata’s Song', honouring her culture that is deeply rooted in folklore and mythology. Caday focuses particularly on the diwatas—spiritual beings that guard and nurture forests, caves, land or bodies of water. As a result, the paintings are a culmination of stories about these goddesses of the moon, stars, waters and sunrise, stories of forbidden loves, midnight mystique and the peculiar allure of flowers in bloom.
In Bicolano folklore, people believed that the Takay flower was a gift for them from the lunar gods. Bulan (the moon god) and Haliya (goddess of the moonlight) had frequent swims in the waters of Ibalong. One night, Bulan came across a fair maiden named Takay, who had drowned in the flood caused by the god Onos. He grieved her death and decided to transform her body into a flower that would symbolise her. Now abundant in the waters of Lake Bato, the Takay flower (now known today as the Bicolano water hyacinth) is a divine providence reminding the people of Ibalong to be good and kind-hearted to one another.