Centred

I am an artist and nomad with a passion for the endlessly varied Australian landscape and its inhabitants. I paint compulsively, on one level it is a meditation, a spiritual experience, on another a journal of outback travels.

Recent journeys have produced ‘Centred’, paintings inspired by travels through the outback to, from and around the Red Centre.

The 40 paintings fall into five series: 

Frameworks -  explore the essence of a particular place glimpsed through the framework of tree trunks and branches. The twelve paintings in this series are framed works on paper while those in the other four series are stretched canvases.

 Fishermen - an ongoing series inspired by birds of the inland waterways.

 MacDonnells - follow the ranges and gorges of the Centre. 

Nomads - paintings from a variety of other locations. 

Drive - created in the vehicle as we travel long distances, these are flashes of place woven into a composite. Sometimes when the road is rough the result is simply a background, and details are added later in the studio. I prepare rolls of canvas, work on a small area and allow it to dry.  As the work grows the canvas is progressively rolled and unrolled  - hence the long narrow format. I've been perfecting this technique for many years - my first solo exhibition in 1986 was titled 'Landscapes on the Move', but was confined to small works on paper.

I use acrylics and sometimes natural ochres - this mix of ancient and modern media gives me a buzz. Apart from the Frameworks series, all are painted on canvas on location and later finished (if necessary) and stretched in the studio.  

My ‘Tour Organiser’ and I live on, work in and love the land and this collective feeling is poured into these stories of place.

Profits from sales of works in Centred will go to selected charities
associated with rural and remote areas.