Australian Landscape Govetts Leap Layers of Time/Blue Mountains by Kit McNeill

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Kit McNeill
100 artworks

Darwin, Australia

Artwork Description

Oil on wood

Signed on the front.

The Govetts leap painting was inspired on one of my many painting trips in the Blue Mountains. The following extract is from the sign overlooking the magnificent vista. How could I not be inspired.
" Below these dramatic cliffs are the Grose River and Govetts Creek. Govett visited this site on 18 January 1836 and was impressed by the matching horizontal layers on each side of the valley. For example the layer of red shade halfway up the cliff is clearly indicated by the bank of vegetation which grows there. The vast gorge was shaped by streams eroding through the uppermost basalt layer (the youngest rocks in the area) Remnants of this laver exist on the top of My Hay and Mt Banks. The eroded rock particles have been carried out to sea by the Grose and Hawkesbury Rivers. The striking vertical sandstone cliffs above the steep stopes have come about because of the lavers of scoter shales and coal below them. The shale erodes more readily as it expands and contacts in wet and dry weather. This results in undercutting of the cliff face, which fractures vertically and collapse in large blocks"
This painting was an absolute pleasure to paint taking approximately four weeks and completed late 2016.
This painting is unframed.

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Medium

Oil on Specially prepared board

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