Eucalypts at Sunset No1 Framed (M)

The more time I spend painting nature, the more I begin to notice about it. Have you ever looked closely at the colours and patterns that appear around you in the bush?
This is the first in another mini-series exploring gum trees i've come across in nature. It's fascinating to me that something as bland as the bark of a tree could contain all of these colours and patterns, you just have to take a moment and look closely to find them.

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I find that my art enables me to express elements of my world that can't necessarily be seen by the naked eye, its an attempt at conveying something a bit intangible. Abstraction is the primary way I communicate my ideas and experiences in art.
The naive and somewhat primitive lines, shapes, colours and textures I use are my attempt at capturing the atmosphere, personality or feeling of a place or person I have encountered in my life, realism or a photograph in my opinion doesn't always capture these elements of the world.
I feel that my art brings these to the surface...it shows the soul of something, somewhere, or someone. Perhaps you will see someone you know within my strange works, maybe even yourself.