Seventeen seventy spring series
Each year our family returns to the coastal town of Seventeen Seventy. We spend the days fishing, crabbing, swimming – living off and by the sea. It is a period of regeneration for us. The energy I receive from this unique landscape — its plants, its rugged headland, wild surf beach and calm inlet — it fuels my creativity, and rejuvenates me for another year. It inspires a flurry of art-making to capture the textures, patterns, colours and the deep calm I experience in this place.
The sand becomes my teacher and my canvas.
I retreat to the verandah from the midday heat…
Printed fields specimens of flora become the mark-maker and subject. Layers of colours and texture reflect back the essence of the surrounding bushland—its colours, smells, forms, sounds and lifeforce.
Soaking in the call of the noisy friar birds in the grevilleas, goannas sleuthing between the grasses, and the distant hush of lapping waters on the shore below.
