Land of the Bird People, 91cm x 152cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
This is a representation of the Kanimbla area beneath the Mount Blackheath lookout. It is also the void that the hang-gliders launch themselves into and float above the farmland below.
Dogface Landslide from Narrow Neck, 91cm x 152cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
In 1931 large cracks appeared at the edge of the Blue Mountains escarpment overlooking the Narrow Neck Peninsula. Within weeks a massive section of the cliff peeled of and crashed into the valley. It was a major news story and tourist attraction before and after the fall. The locals dubbed the fresh new yellow sandstone facade Dogface.
Alcove (Evans Lookout), 152cm x 76cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
Sometimes nature and architecture share names and forms.
Silent Afternoon, 76cm x 152cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
A view from the Megalong Valley.
Almost Blue, 91cm x 91cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
Until I made this work I rarely left a sky out of my landscape painting. Its about a gradual ascension from earth colours through a light filled atmosphere towards blue. The subject is the Kanimbla Valley below the Blue Mountains.
Hassan’s Light Spear, 91cm x 91cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
Its simply about a sudden shaft of light from a cloud break above The Darling Causeway on the Western side of the Blue Mountains near Lithgow.
Dusk Below Blackheath, 91cm x 91cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026 (framed)
At dusk the tones get closer and with more harmony in the muted colours a mood is created as day turns into night. This for me is similar to the notion of a pastorale in music and poetry. The subject is the Kanimbla Valley from the Mount Blackheath lookout.
Solitary Gaze, 91cm x 91cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026 (framed)
Pareidolia is the tendency to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual-
The subject it the gap between Sublime Point in Leura and Mount Solitary.
Red Square, 61cm x 61cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
Looking at a squarish rockface near Hargraves lookout and thinking about High Modernist artists like Joseph Albers and Marc Rothko who stripped the elements of painting down to a square within a square or a rectangle within a rectangle. Q. Where do you go after that? Back to nature’s glorious chaos with a new way of looking at it?
Anvil to K-Town, 61cm x 61cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026
Big shapes, simplified and organised. Subject is Katoomba from Anvil Rock.
Rhett Brewer - Artist 