Ghost Van of Capertee,  31cm  x 41cm, watercolour on paper, 2025

It was the link for so many people, between one stage of their lives,  and the next. It was sometimes a happy occasion,  and sometimes a disappointment.  Many of those people have passed, and some are still living.  The old van won’t be moving people now.  It sits beside a shed and waits for rust, lichen, and the weather to take it back to the earth.

Ghost Town,  31cm x 41cm, watercolour on paper,  2025

Shale oil was mined in the township of Glen Davis NSW, from the late nineteenth century until the 1950’s when the mine closed. The planned village streets are empty,  as are what remains of this village centre.