Every shadow is a whole world of brightness and luminosity opposed to sunlight: these are called reflections. Andre Derain
‘Moombooldool Rhapsody’ is my emotional reflection upon a struggling roadside remnant of the once widespread Mallee environment.
Discreet, camouflaged and ambiguous; my images are illuminated by the energy and tenacity of creatures: echidnas, geckoes, bats, lizards and butterflies which reach a crescendo at night.
It pains me to think that most people drive down the highway through my ‘Moombooldool Rhapsody’ oblivious.
‘Moombooldool Lastlings‘
Acrylic painting 119 x 153cm
‘Moombooldool Megafauna’
Acrylic Painting 130 x 104 cm
‘Moombooldool Mega Fauna’ is number three of a series of paintings of the Moombooldool mallee remnant. This roadside strip of vegetation is a sad relic of a former natural wilderness.
One can only imagine the Mega fauna of 60,000 years ago…
The three metre ‘Dromornis stirtoni’;
a monstrous goose-like bird roaming with thunderous foot falls and eerie calls across the landscape, or giant lizards and oversized cockatoos plodding and screeching at the roadside as I drive to work.
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