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Eungella spell. 91cm x 91cm, acrylic on canvas, 91cm x 91cm, 2026

In 2023 I stayed, along with eight other artist friends, in a cabin in Eungella, in the mountains west of McKay Queensland. Eungella is an aboriginal word from the Birri clan meaning Land of Clouds. I was painting the late afternoon light and thinking of the Modernist artist Marc Rothko when I made this studio painting.

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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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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?