Burnt Up Hill (2019) skull

Burnt Up Hill (2019) skullOil on canvas 24 x 30 in A hillside scarred by wildfire regenerates in bursts of colour and light. Charred trunks stand among new growth, marking the moment when destruction and renewal coexist neither past nor future fully dominant. The painting holds the land in a state of transition, where memory and resilience share the same ground. Exhibition History Metamorphosis, The Old Fire Hall, Whitehorse, 2019 Provenance Artists Studio

The town looks washed clean

The painting confronts the violence of abandonment — not in the moment of death

and colour rising again from beneath

where jagged peaks cascade from warm

earth exposed

scattered wrappers

Oil on canvas

with a single red bird nestled among the wildflowers

and interdependence — without sentimentality

There’s a poetry in the ordinary

recording the landscape in a moment of violent change

glowing against the deep greens and shadowed stone behind it