Mixed Media on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This piece was inspired by my recent visit to Queensland.

I grew up on the Gold Coast and a lot of my friends were anticipating that I was actually moving back there and would leave Melbourne because of what’s currently going on here in relation to COVID - 19.

I was there for my father‘s funeral…

I find that it is from the sorrow and pain of life that joy finds its way to the canvas.

This artwork is mostly about following the peace that I had to STAY in Melbourne and not be a part of the fear and of what feels like mass-exodus in this community and instead be part of the hope that things can be different.