This painting is part of a series painted in the back roads of the mid north of South Australia, near Gladstone. These works were painted in the plein air tradition. Painting the farmed landscape on the spot, as you see it before you, helps to evoke the mood and spirit of the country, rather than reproducing it through the technical, and impersonal, seeing eye of the the camera. For example, the dustiness and heat of those hot summer days, when there is a north wind blowing, when the spirit of the landscape is fierce and brooding in the 40 degree heat and the grasses are tinder dry. Contrast this with the softness of the spring grasses when the landscape's spirit is more gentle. The unsealed white roads contrast with the colours of the farmed landscape.