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Grindell’s Dream, 91cm x 152cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026

John Grindell was an early white settler in the Flinders and Gammon Ranges district of South Australia. He ran cattle and built a hut that still stands today. In 1918 he was arrested by an Adelaide detective on suspicion that he had murdered and hid the body of George Snell, his son in law. He was later convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. His sentence was later commuted and he spent the rest of his life in prison. This was the view from Grindell’s Hut which I stayed in in 2012.

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Eungella Morning, 91cm x 91cm, acrylic on canvas, 2026

This is very much a studio painting. It is based on the morning misty light in the valley below Eungella but also my love for traditional Chinese landscape and the islands off shore from Mckay. I moved the Islands and the sea up into the valley and graded the perspective from Western to Eastern.

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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.

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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?