Canola and wind Farm, 61cm x 122cm, acrylic on canvas- framed, 2024 (sold)

This painting had its own ideas about how it should end up. It kept suggesting changes to me and it became an arm wrestle between painter and painting. Artists will understand that what you envision for a work, and what it becomes can sometimes be two very different things. I’m happy that I was able to be persuaded.

It depicts the Canola crops, hills, and a wind farm in central western NSW, as a storm front approaches.

Sodwalls, 61cm x 122cm, acrylic on canvas framed, 2022

I was exploring the country beyond the Blue Mountains and I drove past this scene. It reminded me of the British countryside I explored as a young artist when I lived there for 6 months in the Eighties. It also looked a bit like a train set to me. I set my gear and started painting.