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
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Edge of the salt lake
130 x 130 cm
Acrylic paint with sand and calcite, pencil and pastel on canvas
AU$6,600
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Pink Salt Lake, earth and salt
130 x 130 cm
Acrylic paint with sand and calcite, pencil and pastel on canvas
AU$6,600
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Pink Salt Lake, muddy edge
130 x 130 cm
Acrylic paint with sand and calcite, pencil and pastel on canvas
AU$6600
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Earth Water Salt
150 x 130 cm
Acrylic paint with sand and calcite,pencil and pastel on canvas
AU$7,200
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sailing to the sirens
168 x 151 x 60 cm
Chromed, powder coated and galvanised steel
AU$11,000
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