TITLE: Into a gully gliding

dimensions: 36" x 40", 90 x 100cm
retail price: AUD$2900
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This artwork has been created as mixed media on canvas.

biography:

A sense of place is within the human mind, but is also stimulated by the environment itself.

My work as an environmental and landscape painter, reflects a natural human yearning to interact with the land, its energy, its beauty and light, and its darkness.

There are representations or, fragments of memorized parts of earth, sky and water. The aspects or themes are set, or pieced together in my mind, like a mosaic, from different sources or different perspectives of the same source. They then become a reality to me as I paint. I see the paintings as ‘scattered poetic versions of experience and landscape seen’. At times I have overlaid the ‘life force’ swirling around us, the visible and the invisible, in lines and textured shapes.

Physical inspiration for my works, are taken from deserts in the US ( Nevada), India (Rajasthan) Africa, (Namibia, Morocco, Senegal), The Little Desert, in W.A and the vast expanse of the Nullarbor Plains that stretches between SA and WA. The human-being is not represented in my work, but I acknowledge human existence through my own endeavours, painting the visible and the invisible.

Each painting is arrived at through a unique unpredictable random process as I present individual crystallized thoughts based on landscaped memory. I respond to that moment in time when life’s energy pushes forward through the communal well of experiences. Although each work is not inextricably bound to the last, certain elements link them together besides paint application, colour, and texture. Another less obvious, intrinsic element is the importance of nature to me. Nature gives us humanity, a sense of belonging through natural history and a global view that is greater than human endeavour. Being part of that ‘life force’; the “macro” and the microscopic elements, we all walk this ancient earth on that delicately balanced line between good and evil, lightness and darkness.
I try to tread lightly.