I am thrilled to have my latest work featured in a celebratory inaugural exhibition at the stunning new premises for Whitewall Art Projects Gallery. Curated and managed by artist and dealer Thomas Bucich, the gallery’s new space at Shop 2/13 Old Hume Highway in historic Berrima provides a magnificent, light-filled architectural frame for contemporary art. Showcasing work in an environment engineered by a fellow artist is a unique privilege, as the spatial design and lighting understand exactly how to let the textures of heavy paint and sculpted forms breathe, inviting viewers into an intimate dialogue with the material.

The collection on display—comprising both major paintings and structural sculptures—represents a culmination of my deep, ongoing exploration of Australia’s vast salt lakes. To give context to these finished pieces, I wanted to share a visual archive documenting the raw mechanics of their creation. The journey begins out on the blinding white expanses of the lakes themselves, working directly in the elements where I capture the stark horizons through immediate field drawings and urgent oil sketches. These initial field notes are less about precision and more about absorbing the overwhelming scale, heat, and silent geometry of the ancient topography.

The second phase of the process moves away from the exposed lake beds and retreats into the rustic solitude of a nearby shack studio. It is within those weathered walls that the raw sensory data of the desert is unpacked, analyzed, and translated onto large-scale canvases and forged metals. The final images in this series reveal the ultimate destination of that journey: the completed artworks standing proud on the gallery walls. Seen together, the exhibition functions not just as a display of static objects, but as a complete chronicle of an artist negotiating with the horizon, from the remote dust of the salt pans to the pristine floors of Berrima.

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