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Back to the Well, 36cm x 28cm, acrylic on board, 2022- sold

This is a painting of Marsden Rock at Kanimbla, NSW. I’ve made several paintings of it since I first saw it and painted it en plein air from a friends verandah in 2015. Going back and painting it from different places has given me a sense of ownership and familiarity with this rocky outcrop that overlooks the Cox’s River but it’s so striking that I expect many other painters would have made their own views of it too, especially Warwick Fuller who lives right next to it.

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Chinese hills, Megalong, 36cm x 28cm, acrylic on board, 2022 – sold

Aerial Perspective is a term known to some painters and photographers as the gradual fading and softening towards blue that we see when looking into the distant parts of a landscape- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_perspective . In traditional Chinese landscapes that often use a monochrome ink they achieve this by watering down the ink and softening the tones as the eye looks into the distance. They also exaggerate the distance, not by western perspective but by working the distant hills higher and higher towards the top of the paper or silk in an exaggerated way, usually not including a horizon at all. My painting uses western perspective, aerial perspective but shows the Kanimbla hills in a way that reminded me of a Chinese landscape.

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Towards Shipley, 84cm x 61cm, acrylic on canvas, 2022, sold

This one is a plein air work of the Shipley Plateau as seen from Kanimbla. It had it’s finishing touches made in my studio after a day onsite as many of my plein air works do. I wanted to bring out the wonderful rhythm of the escarpment and the curves and bumps of the hills that lead the eye up to it.