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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.

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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?

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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.