About the Artwork

I started painting views of the Lyell Highway where it climbs east out of Queenstown, Tasmania, during lockdown. At the height of Covid I could walk that bitumen with vacancy and loss the pervasive sentiments in my mind. Indeed the multitude of painted canvases that came from that period form a type of imaginary ossuary - amplified into real world ‘stations of the cross’ on my/our march to the other side. Good friends already up over the gap and behind the dark horizon on that journey.