These works were painted from field trips to salt lakes at two locations: the Murray-Sunset Park, in Northwestern Victoria, Country of the Latji Latji, Ngintait and Nyeri Nyeri Peoples; and the Yorke Peninsular in South Australia, land of the Adjahdura People.
The salt lakes represent the extremities of experience. For me, they connect to life’s origin, reminding me of Deep Time. My artistic process is to experience a location, walking or camping, taking notice of the environment, watching the land itself, and the birds and animals and insects that share it. I draw, scribbles and doodles, and sometimes paint. Back in the studio these initial studies, form the basis of larger works. This exhibition is a collision of memories and emotions that in an abstract way attempt to illuminate our relationship to the land we live with and on, to the plants and trees and other animals that we share our life with, and to a more spiritual connection to the cosmos .
Dry Bone Lake, deep time 190 x140 cm Acrylic paint with sand and calcite, pencil and pastel on canvas AU$9,900 Enquiry
Edge of the salt lake 130 x 130 cm Acrylic paint with sand and calcite, pencil and pastel on canvas AU$6,600 Enquiry
Pink Salt Lake, earth and salt 130 x 130 cm Acrylic paint with sand and calcite, pencil and pastel on canvas AU$6,600 Enquiry
Pink Salt Lake, muddy edge 130 x 130 cm Acrylic paint with sand and calcite, pencil and pastel on canvas AU$6600 Enquiry
Earth Water Salt 150 x 130 cm Acrylic paint with sand and calcite,pencil and pastel on canvas AU$7,200 Enquiry
At the edge of wonder on the Pink Salt Lake 170 x 130 cm Acrylic paint with sand and calcite,pencil and pastel on canvas AU$8,500 Enquiry
On the Pink Salt Lake, midday too bright to see 190 x 140 cm On the Pink Salt Lake, midday too bright to see AU$9,900 Enquiry
Pink Salt Lake – reflection (paper) 99 x 120 cm paper size Acrylic paint and pencil and pastel on Washi paper stretched on Shoji paper AU$4,900 framed Enquiry
Journey on the Pink Salt Lake (paper) 99 x 120 cm paper size Acrylic paint and pencil and pastel on Washi paper stretched on Shoji paper $4,900 framed Enquiry
Sailing to the sirens 168 x 151 x 60 cm Chromed, powder coated and galvanised steel AU$11,000 Enquiry
