| Field Notes: inland The following images are from a painting trip August/September 2009. It includes studies from Broken Hill (NSW), the Mundi Mundi Plain (NSW) and South Australia's Flinders Ranges: covering the areas around Hawker and Wilpena Pound and up north to the Gammon Ranges and Arkaroola. |
 Balcanoona, Gammon Ranges, South Australia return to homepage return to field notes |
| 2 River Gums at
Broken Hill: this is a pastel destined for my solo show in Tamworth Feb 2010 |
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| abandoned railway station at Silverton |  |
| Silverton 20km west of Broken Hill NSW. Worked out here early 2004 for a show I had in Bathurst...was great to be back. I love this part of outback NSW...and Broken Hill! The city has a certain something...amazing architecture. |
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| A studio oil of Silverton |  |
| In a dry creek bed: a
place of inspiration for a series I'm working on " a Broken Country" inspired by a symposium I attended at Macquarie Uni in July 2009. Members incl. my friend poet Mark Tredinnick, Anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose, La Trobe Uni philosopher Freya Matthews and lead by Prof Jim Hatley from Uni of Salisbury USA. |
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| study for a Broken Country, a creek bed 30km west of Broken Hill. |  |
| twisted, tortured and
mutilated river gums mark a broken country |
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| Broken Country: Study |  |
| Broken Country: Study |
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| South Australia This is me walking along Kanyaka Creek in the Flinders. Between Hawker and Quorn. |
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| remnants of Kanyaka
Homestead. Flinders Ranges: South Australia This place had a powerful hold over me, it still does, went back several times to walk and work amongst her ruins. The cemetary nearby was deeply moving...with babies, children and folk barely 40 buried near to the now dry Kanyaka Creek. I spent alot of time imagining people living & loving, dancing & dieing at Kanyaka: the place of the stone |
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| at Kanyaka |  |
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in progress: a triptych of Kanyaka Homestead. Once a thriving community, but due to severe drought the families abandoned these beautiful dry stone wall abodes. Mother Nature and her ultimate control over climatic conditions has her way in the end...and we still think we're in charge! |
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| at the work on the
piece above The folk of Kanyaka left in the 1890s due to drought. The irony is there's a grave there of a guy they drowned when the creek flooded at one stage. |
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Kanyaka Homestead: A large oil studio piece (50 x 150cm), still in progress. I've found it hard to work on this painting. The Station with it history of loss and grief, and the environmental concerns of it's now departed familes I feel is something we can all connect with. Having lost my Mother under grim circumstances that year was a constant companion on this trip. Sure! it makes for good art...but... |
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| along the creek at Kanyaka |  |
| heading north towards
Wilpena Pound: These are the Elder Ranges. This piece will be in my show In Tamworth |
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| Wilpena Pound National Park At Sacred Canyon: an Adnyamathanha artsite, with rock peckings. Mainly concentric circles. It's a small humble gorge but for me a very special place...spirit laden. |
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| A desert tree on the
edge...this is at Rawnesly Station about 30km south of Wilpena Pound. Was a great place to stay...and the Kangaroo at the restaraunt was so good I had it 2 nights in a row. |
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| Rawnsley |  |
| This is at Arkaroola. I make myself at home and spread my gear around. |  |
| The Northern Flinders: Arkaroola |  |
| Balcanoona: In the Gammon
Ranges, Northern Flinders This is a pastel triptych that's going in my solo at the Weswal Gallery, Tamworth this February 2010 |
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| Sketching at
Balcanoona |
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| Sketching at
Arkaroola with onlooker Willi Forward. Willi and her husband Bill have caught up with me since back home in the Blue Mountains. return to homepage |
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