The tree spirits series is an ongoing project started in 2004, at an Artist-in-Residency in my native Austria.
It was time to take a closer look at nature- after painting big sweeping vistas and landscapes for years, I developed an interest in the close ups of the rocks and trees that make the landscape.
Over the years, this has resulted in many a painting of bark and moss, rocks and lichen.
Refined in 2006 at the Artist in residency program at Arthur Boyd's Bundanon,
I have sonce renamed the series " Tree spirits" and am concentrating mainly on the bark of the ever beautiful Eucalyptus tree.