Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed certificate of authenticity.

I moved to Murrayville (population +300) in the Mallee area of Victoria in 1981 to take up the Art teacher position there and stayed for 15 years. When people ask my wife and I what it was like we often reply that it was a 15 year long BBQ set in the beautiful area of the Big Desert. I’ve drawn and painted the Murrayville to Nihl track many times and the big blue sky along with the sandy track is always a spectacular, compelling image. In this artwork I wanted to show what the locals call, The Big Blue Room; that vast, silent landscape that surrounds you when you live in the Mallee.