This painting was a very emotional reaction to the natural disasters that befell Australia across Queensland‚ Victoria and Western Australia in January 2011. It is obviously a \"bird\'s eye view\" of the swirling floodwaters and fires as they wreaked a path of devastation across the land‚ engulfing everything in their wake. The relationship between white settlers and the environment has always been precarious in Australia and more often than not‚ nature shows us just who is the boss...