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Caiwarro - sunlit tree
2008
I noticed the western sun light up a small tree opposite our Caiwarro camp. The overhanging limbs, their reflections and the framing trunks beside me created a mandala-like effect.
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Cameron's Corner windmill
2008
This fallen windmill is a poignant reminder of hard times on the land. The symbols along the lower edge of the canvas were borrowed from a series of paintings I produced during the 1993 drought. When I named the exhibition I remembered that when she was tiny my daughter’s name for a windmill was “round’n’round’n”.
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2008
2008
We spent a night very close to where Burke & Wills camped on Cooper’s Creek where it enters Coongie Lakes north of Innamincka. Sarah Murgatroyd wrote in her book The Dig Tree “a remote area…but anyone persistent enough to come here is rewarded with the sense of entering into an enchanted kingdom…” We were lucky to be there on the night of the full moon. s gbe, rising fast and casting a stream of light over the lake. |
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Coongie - full moon 2
2008
At Coongie, “magical lagoons lie nestled amongst brick-red sand dunes…” (Sarah Murgatroyd - The Dig Tree). We were lucky to be there on the night of the full moon, first an enormous globe, rising fast and casting a stream of light over the lake.
Coongie - road in
2008
The road to Coongie is one of the worst in the west and prunes away all but the most persistent travellers. I wondered at times whether we would shake to pieces before we got there. |
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Cullyamurra pelicans
2008
The pelicans were never still. Now far, now near, now off to fish elsewhere. These three small images took shape in my head while camped at Cullyamurra in 2007. |
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Cullyamurra - Corella's eye view
2008
Sunset at Cullyamurra Waterhole, and the corellas come home to roost. Young birds spend most of the day around their nests in tree hollows watching the pelicans patrol the creek from daylight to dusk as they have for centuries. |
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2008
The central panel for this painting was created on location when we camped at Cullyamurra Waterhole on Cooper’s Creek in 2007. Sand, gel and paint were manipulated into an impression of the dry, almost colourless landscape behind the creek. |
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2008
The lakes at Currawinya were brimming full, as were the claypans, simply bare depressions in a dry time. At Lake Numalla, the air was full of bird calls in a morse-code pattern strange to me. I’d never seen a Pied Honeyeater, and here were hundreds –sure enough my bird book likens their calls to morse code signals. |
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Patterns - gecko and finches
2008
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2008
On my first trip to the Kimberley in 1986 I saw the Spinifex Pigeon while painting at the Bungle Bungles and knew one day the experience would come out in paint. |
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Lake Houdraman - cold day
2008
At Houdraman, red sandhills run down to a wide stretch of water where waterlilies bloom even in the middle of winter, one of those places that must have been on the popular destinations list for centuries. The previous day was calm and the reflections were mirror-perfect. This day the water was ruffled by a chill wind, the sky was cloudy and even the birds seemed to feel the cold.
Maranoa River Bank
2008
On the bank behind our camp, an arrangement of trunks demanded to be translated into paint. In late afternoon, copper and orange tones intensify.
Maranoa River Reflections
2008
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Galahs
2008
A good season provides ripe pickings for seed eating birds. Galahs against a background of grass paddocks and dark trees inspired this painting. |
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Diamantina billabong
2008
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2008
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SHADOW SERIES
Spoonbill - cold morning at Ward River
2008
Catching breakfast is hard work in sub-zero temperatures – best to find a few rays of sun and warm up a little first. This is a "morning shadow” painting using cool colours.
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Driving Big Red
2008
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Blue bonnets
2008
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