“My work is firmly underpinned by a process of tactile discovery and imaginative exchange between place and paint. I’ve always been drawn to things aged or weathered. In the rust of tin sheds and faded paint of neglected fences, in the peeling bark and pitted stones and rocks where we live in rural Australia, a history is sensed. The works come from a deep connection to land and place, and the way experiences of place are written into memory. My abstractions gesture at the interplay of landscape forms, textures and colours in the spaces that shape my world. The monumentality of open space and the horizon line are an important presence in my recent paintings. The land that surrounds me endures, yet it is transient in its constant cycle of growth, change and decay. Wind, rain, the dry, fire, alter the land around me constantly. Through a complex mix of textured mediums and many layers of washed glazes and marks, the surfaces I build uphold a balance between freedom and intent. I seek to find the nuance and transience of those surfaces.
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