Marengo Big Pond – SOLD!

This painting, Marengo Big Pond, forms part of a series of works based on nearby Marengo landscape.

For many years I have played with the connection between landscape, memory and an evocation of place.

From the early landscape paintings of Busty Road, Apollo Bay, viewed through a foreground of still life objects, to my more abstract images and enigmatic three dimensional ceramic ‘tor’ configurations, a visual lexicon of forms has developed that gathers the motifs and memory of sites as varied as the Flinders Ranges, Lake Mungo, Mutawintji, Apollo Bay and Marengo.

Over the years, outback women’s painting camps have provided sites for documenting an intuitive response to the quiet and nurturing rhythms of nature as experienced within each site.

By creating an empathetic ambience within the camp settings, reverie and intuition, perceptions and the imagined, so essential to the process of creativity, were able to flow freely and later inform my studio work.

The more local Marengo series continues this personal response to place, as my oeuvre continues its re-invention.