While working as a nurse in Australia’s remote Indigenous communities, Alan was overcome with an urge to capture on canvas the astounding landscape surrounding him. He visited the local art centre, swapped a first aid kit for scraps of canvas and a few tubes of half-dried paint, and opened the floodgates. The dynamic, emotive works that emerged over the next fifteen years speak to the juxtaposition of nature and the manufactured, a clash of cultures and his individual search for meaning They reflect the vastness and majesty of places removed from the juggernaut that is the city, and suggest the intense spiritually inherent in remote intact country.