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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.

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Sun Patterns at Mount Solitary, 61cm x 122cm, acrylic on linen, 2024 – sold

The foothills of this rocky ridge that appears to float in the Jamison Valley are rippled like wind swept waves, moving across a fluid surface. In fact they take the form of waves because they are subject to the same forces of wind, water, heat and gravity that we see at a beach or from a boat. They are also, like waves, subject to time and rhythm, only in the case of these hills and escarpments it is the rhythm of geological time. The clouds above, also subject to these forces, allows patches of sunlight to ripple across the crests of rock, fern and trees below, creating beautiful patterns that drift and change as the afternoon unfolds.

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Afternoon Storm Clouds at Point Pilcher- Plein Air Study. 40cm x 70cm, acrylic on board, 2024

Point Pilcher is on the edge of the Grose Valley near Medlow Bath in the Blue Mountains. I often kick start a series of new works with some plein air sessions making smaller, more expressive and immediate works like this.