Harris Courtin Gallery, Paddington   2006

Artist's statement: This work is a response to my residency at Bundanon. I am using the landscape as a device to explore space and abstraction – and colour to evoke “air” and the sense of peace I felt in such a beautiful environment.

The paintings come from direct observation and immersion in the landscape ... the structure of the environment has been internalised, producing  half-remembered, dream-like views that represent a "landscape essence" rather than a specific place, in which heat, air, space, silence and mental privacy play a major role.

When Charles Blackman saw the paintings in the studio, he was moved to say that the work “…was full of shining light, radiant…you let the inner things – the soul – come into the paintings [and] evoke feelings from the viewer…”