Living here on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland offers up some beautiful landscape from the coastal fringe to the hinterland. The most dominant landscape features are the extinct volcano cores of the Glasshouse Mountains which can be seen from all directions. The hinterland in particular reveals sublime and dramatic light variations especially after passing storms which is a delight to experience and a wonderful source of inspiration.
The joy I experience at these times comes out in the heightened palette with its bright colours and playful approach to the relationship between the defined line work and the loose blocking in of colour. I like to use colourful under painting and glazes to generate colour intensity along with strong outlines of either black or colourful highlighting. The goal is to transmit an experience and tap those memories of sunrise and the symbolic meaning of new beginnings. This painting is a triptych and can be hung with edges touching or separated as in the gallery image.