Bonnie Doone

This painting is inspired by the landscape along the Nogo River in the upper Burnett, Queensland. It features ironbarks, a bottle tree and a kurrajong. It is an oil on canvas, finished with white edges and intentionally left with paint spills to enhance the visual impact, signed and ready to hang.

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The nickname was first used by my uncle when I was a youth. The years of that young stockman and dozer driver are now a distant memory.

I was born in country Queensland and spent my early childhood on a cattle property situated along the Nogo River. I now paint as ‘Greybeard,’ exploring that harsh country that is so familiar to me. The sands of the Nogo and the black ironbarks of the surrounding expanse carry a strong sense of place and personal identity.