Toohey Forest: Deep Inside

This is a Special painting of a place that is very sacred to me: Deep inside Toohey Forest. It may not look much on the map, but in Toohey there are Koalas, Echidnas, Goannas, and, as shown here, beautiful Australian Grass Trees. I have kind of thought of the way Gauguin plays with the relationship between a Flat Surface and the Atmospheres of Nature in this work, and while I was painting it en plein air there was a storm brewing.

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Francis is a very experienced practioner in a number of different media, with a deep love of the bush in his zone of SE Qld and across Australia. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from the University of Queensland, which he combined with studies in scientific Geomorphology to gain further knowledge of the inner workings of landscape...currently studying further research into drawing and painting at the London College of Art, Francis loves to immerse in and reduce to its essence the spirit of a scene, which he combines with his knowledge of Colour Harmony.
He has had Three Solo shows in the Brisbane Region and has also presented a performance Art Piece with the GOLD Dancers at the Australian National Gallery in Canberra.
"My ambition is to give as many of my pictures as possible a happy home"