"Improbable colour of the outback"

This is an impossibly steep gully, marked by downed trees and logs and covered in dry summer grass and thistles !.. the orange hill is another story!.. it's painted from a photograph that had gone wrong, but tossed up the opportunity to exaggerate colours. I was very happy with the way the darker elements embedded themselves within the paintwork..

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My first 20 years were spent in southern NSW on a farm on wonderful grey box country, then..
University at ANU surrounded by scribbly gums.
More recently south coast of NSW amongst beautiful spotted gum forests.
In between times I studied art at RCAE Wagga and TAFE Goulburn in the spare time I had running a business spanning 40 years.
Artist's trips to Alice Springs and beyond over the past decade have rekindled my interest in the textures and colours of Central Australia- ghost gum country...
There's a pattern here...
For the past 10 years I have been exhibiting and selling successfully in Sydney.