Red Waterfall, 80cm x 120cm, watercolour on paper
Again I’m using watercolour,
pushing it to its limits, working with water as a critical medium, allowing it
to flow over the page as it will, in a fierce effort to express my anger over
our decimation of the landscape. This is the first of a series of waterfalls
that I don’t seem to be able to finish! Partly it was inspired by visiting the paleobotanist, Dr Mary White, at her environmental retreat near Taree. From her
preserved land you could see two beautiful but slender waterfalls, and somehow
these reminded me of this small, elderly but tough lady working so hard to protect
the natural world for the future.
such a rich gash!
ReplyDeleteEven without explanation i could feel the violent anger, it's a powerful image, like a picture shot from above of some massacre ... a bad wound on mother earth's skin ...
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