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Painting, Oil on Linen Canvas
Size: 35.8 W x 24 H x 1.6 D in
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During the 2021 Covid lockdowns, I travelled 8,000 km through outback Queensland with my husband and fellow artist, Paul Rees. The Enormous Vastness series is inspired by the beauty of the landscapes we saw. The series title is a line from a song called 'Droving Woman' by Australian Aboriginal singer-songwriter Kev Carmody. He wrote: 'The enormous vastness of them inland plains gives a lonely contentment to which you can't put a name, it’s satisfied glow city folks seldom attain, they spend life on a right rigid rail'. This became the theme song for our journey. Outback Queensland is hard but beautiful. Years go by without rain but 2021 was the first of three wet years so there was abundant vegetation and birdlife. There are never many people there but, during Covid, there were even fewer than usual. Sometimes we would drive all day and not see another car. We took lots of photos and painted most days because there was always something beautiful to see if we slowed right down. We would quietly paint in watercolours near a creek or waterhole for two or three hours. After a while, the native animals and birds got used to our presence. One day, two emus came in for a drink only metres away. These photos and watercolours became the basis for our oil paintings which we completed over 18 months back in our Brisbane studio. For many Australians, the outback is somewhere they fly over on their way overseas. They may look down and marvel at the vastness of the continent but they do not really see the ancient beauty below. 'On the Way to Bali' depicts a beautiful rocky bluff near Quilpie in western Queensland with a Qantas plane flying overhead. I hope these paintings give you a feeling for the fragile beauty of outback Queensland.
Painting:Oil on Linen Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:35.8 W x 24 H x 1.6 D in
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Ready to Hang:Yes
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I’m a painter and printmaker based in the subtropical city of Brisbane, Australia. I work in Whynot Studio with fellow artist, Paul Rees. I work mainly in oil, but also in watercolour, to depict the beauty of the Australian landscape.
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