"Night burn Ruby Gap NP"

Ruby Gap NP is one of the most magical spots in the NT! You've got to drive a long way to get there. In 2008 when I went there on an artists camp N Parks was conducting a controlled burnoff in the back country. At night I walked to the top of the ridge to see a beautiful mosaic of orange and black, with smoke and debris in a sky illuminated by the burning fires.. fabulous! This diptych was done from memory back home in the studio. It's about renewal of the landscape. I used a scraper to get crisp but enigmatic details in the smoky sky and the blackened hills.

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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.