PAINTING - Working fast, painting with acrylics on paper, abrading, working back into the piece then polishing to a high gloss. The technique seemed to relate to the crackle of the heat and a landscape slowly abraded by a fine, gritty, ever present, stinging dust.
BACKGROUND - From a letter home - The land is so vast and unfamiliar, orange earth, littered with sharp limestone rocks, stubby yellow grass and scattered (miles and miles apart) small trees in groups, the locals call these little islands of shade Dongas. Full of the detritus of decades- rusting tobacco tins, wheel hubs, truck parts and chains, left by generations of trappers and station hands they tell so many stories..