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.