Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Smugglers Cove is situated at the end of Grandfather's Gully on the NSW South Coast. It is part of my regular cliff top walk and I am always inspired by the sandstone cliffs and the way the light plays on the cliff and reflects into the ocean.

Grandfather's Gully has a rich indigenous history with middens and ochre sources nearby. It was also a source of timber for spears, a meeting place and a place for ceremony. The rich indigenous history adds to the sense of meaning and importance of this part of the south-east. The European history intersects the indigenous history but one gets the sense that there are many untold secrets here.

In this painting I have used a palette knife in broad strokes to show the movement of the water and cloud and the hard edges and solid chunkyfeatures of the cliff. It results in a thick almost impasto style surface.

I think I have captured the scene and the years of history in this painting.

This art work recently was awarded First Place in a local art exhibition.