TRAVELLER'S TALES

These little paintings are  the result of our 4wd travels through the outback in 2012. Although I can’t read a map without feeling sick, I paint as we go. This way I feel totally at one with the landscape, paintbox on my knee, paper or rolled canvas propped against the dash. I am a camera – click – there’s the image --- now I’m an artist, I record it. I paint fast but we always turn a corner or go over a hill before I finish, so of course this influences the painted image, nothing is exactly as memorised, it is a kaleidoscope. When we go walking, knock-out images are stored until I’m back in the studio (aka passenger seat). Sometimes the results are raw, almost childlike – I find this satisfying.

 
Pablo Picasso:
It took me four years to learn to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to learn to paint like a child.

Kaleidoscope = a constantly changing pattern or sequence of objects or elements.