Brenda Humble's December exhibition includes paintings and sculpture from 1988 to the present. Humble's body of jewel-like still-lifes, abstracted in varying degrees, are painterly, boldly colourful and beautifully simple. Her continuing motif, the silhouette of vase and flowers against an open window, is distinct and distilled to essential elements and colour blocks. Her palette is high-keyed like Mattisse and in some of the still-lifes, the flatness and bold outline of shapes is somewhat reminiscent of Picasso.  
Her sculptures share a similar simplification of form; Humble pares back the image to its most elemental lines, creating crisp linea images of quirky teachers, laughing horses, squinting love hearts and little Alice figures.      

Humble won the 1982 Portia Geach Prize for her portrait of Virginia Hall. In August this year her work was honoured with a retrospective which explored her painting of the 1970s and 80s. Brenda Humble: Art as Activism coincided with History Week 2009 and the Kings Cross Library 50th Anniversary. The exhibition explored Brenda's involvement in the activism in the Kings Cross area during that period, her work on the Green Bans and the disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.

Having graduated from the National Art School in 1960, Brenda Humble has been a major part of the Sydney art world for more than 50 years. She has had over 16 solo exhibitions in Sydney and was a finalist in the 1974 Wynne Prize, the 1982 Waverley Art Prize and the 1981 Mornington Peninsula Drawing Prize, amongst others.    

Brenda Humble is represented in the Artbank Collection, Parliament House, Canberra  the Reserve Bank of Australia, University of NSW, the IBM Collection, Sydney, Mackay City Library, Queensland as well as  private and corporate collections in Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK and USA.