The Three Sisters at Echo Point in Katoomba NSW is a major tourist attraction and has been since thee mid 19th century. I hesitated to make a painting of this because it has been done so many times by other artists but its a great subject so I found my own way into it. The things that I felt were important were the combination of solidity of the rock formations and also their temporality. They resist and yet they are slowly dissolving before our eyes in a geological timeframe, like sandcastles on a beach. They stand in apparent defiance before the void that will eventually swallow them up. I gave them a chunky, blocklike appearance to empathise the crystalline structure of the quartz that makes up the sandstone that was laid down as the bed of an ancient sea, only to be lifted up, drained and eroded over the millions of years that followed. When I was making this work I became aware that the Sisters resembled Picasso’s women in the painting that gave me an idea for the joke title.