Delatite River

The Delatite River in Victoria's High Country runs from the Mountains to the Murray-Darling basin. Its icy waters flow all year into its final destination in Lake Eildon. For more than 2000 generations the Taungurung people lived in close connection with this river. In the 1830s European squatters arrived in their search for good grazing land, and in the 1860s thousands of fortune hunters flocked to the area in search of gold. Later in the 19th century as the economy boomed Australia's most famous bush ranger Ned Kelly hid in the area.

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I had been working on the creative side of the television industry as a writer and director for many years (no, decades.) But while being a creative in television was fulfilling it was by its very nature a collaborative effort, unlike painting. For the past ten years I have been a hobby painter giving my work away to friends and relatives. But now I have decided to get serious. As a painter I realise there is no-where to hide, no one else to blame, and it is now time to make the leap and come face to face with my audience. My greatest wish is that my paintings will give as much pleasure to others as they gave to me while I was working on them.

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