Exhibitions
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Skyscapes
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Vast skies under which one seems to disappear...
The South West region of Western Australia holds these secret and majestic landscapes, virtually untouched, gracefully sculpted by time and the elements.
Waychinicup is one place I have painted over the years, the Place of Emu Dreaming, as it is still revered today by local indigenous people.
The clarity of light which characterises most Australian landscapes finds there an unprecedented subtlety of tonalities. These elusive moods echo my previous series, Tonalities of Time - The Forgotten Ways, from my research in Europe in 2006 of Old Masters painting techniques.
Skies and clouds, sand and water are in essence universal phenomena which, once on the canvas draw the viewer in, for a moment of stillness and reflection, on the primal power of nature as well as one's passage in time.
