
In the middle of an unusual three month block of rain where I couldn’t make plein air work I made this from my back verandah.
In the middle of an unusual three month block of rain where I couldn’t make plein air work I made this from my back verandah.
After the Big Wet, 40cm x 90cm, acrylic on board, 2021
I can’t drive through rural countryside where these bales of cotton or hay with their brightly coloured plastic wrapping sit in fields and not be struck by their incongruity. They remind me of the wrapped headlands, buildings and other conceptual artforms of Christo and Jean- Claude. They add a strange alien beauty with their strong synthetic colours set in the less chromatic tertiary colours of nature. I’ve always been interested in the clash of man made forms with natures forms and, as time and the elements take their toll, their eventual breakdown and reconciliation.
Mehi Band of Gold, 40cm x 90cm, acrylic on board, 2021
After the Painted River Project event at Moree where I was an invited artist I returned a few months later to take more photographs as composite studies for some studio paintings. I arrived late in the day after heavy rain. The Mehi River had been in a huge flood just days before and the Sun broke through under heavy clouds just before sunset. The cast shadows of buildings and clouds left a thin strip of Golden Light across the tree trunks.
As I was making this plein air work at Cape Hillsborough the sea mist from behind the farm came in and gradually engulfed the Pinnacle.
An old volcanic core that remains at the back of a farm at Cape Hillsborough Qld painted plein air with Chinese landscape art in mind.
Megalong Pathway, 102cm x 153cm, acrylic on canvas, 2020 sold
Scully’s Shed, oil and acrylic on board, 59cm x 42cm, 2019 sold
Hillside on the Road to Kosciuszko, Oil and acrylic on board, 40cm x 25cm, 2019
Breast Rocks, 24cm x 18cm, oil and acrylic on board, 2019 sold
Helmet Rock, 24cm x 18cm, oil and acrylic on board, 2019