Exhibition Notes

"I have lived and painted in St Albans, Hawkesbury area for over 20 years. In this series, I worked almost exclusively from the deck of "The Blue House", which looks down over the village to the pub, beside The Macdonald River. On the far bank the slopes rise to an imposing sandstone escarpment. The escarpment is composed of sand deposited by an ancient river 250 million years ago... a presence in the land, which I imagine was still more powerful for its first people.

As a way of navigating the landform I look for rhythms of light, shape and colour, preferably the last light as it gifts the Australian bush with depth and mystery. Then forms are hidden, revealed or transformed. The shifting light reveals the bedrock of the escarpment. At first glance the rocks are grey, but small caves and overhangs display the unweathered, true colours of the sandstone.