125cm x 125cm

Acrylic on canvas

My new collection of paintings continues my exploration of the intangible within contemporary approach to landscape painting, embedding themes of spontaneity, fluidity & renewal. I think of my pieces as imaginative, implosive landscapes, held on a flat surface. I am interested in the texture, rhythm and the feel of experience, not in the content or meaning. I delight in the interpenetrating, ever-shifting patterns of land and water, as Australian landscape has metaphorical and mystical dimensions.I want my paintings to convey the flowing, flooding, churning and undulating energies of nature, as it is in constant motion and renewal. My paintings carry with them evocations of a gentle breeze, restless waves, outrageous storms, spays of light or spring fragrances wafted in on the dripping flow of paint. My work is process-based and I aim to preserve traces of the multiple layers, as nature embeds itself in every pebble, rock, shell or tree trunk.
I am interested in the art o f immediate impressions and try to transform the meaning into an art of sensation. Each painting conveys a different mood or state of being, as if viewing the landscape through my subjective filter of the moment. I like mixing abstraction with hints of more recognisable nature forms and shapes, but aim to leave enough room for the poetry, mystery and open interpretation, which is what nature is for me. As Phillip Guston says,  “Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.”