Like White Lines these paintings represent my journey through the landscape. The works started with an art residency at Bundanon with it's fluorescent green fields and dense bushland stepped in the history and emotive paintings of Arthur Boyd. Bundanon is a melancholic place stranded in shadow between the rocky escarpment with its ancient cycads, lightning storms and the dark engulfing Shoalhaven River. The journey continued to Auckland to the outer harbour island of Rangitoto, an evocative, primitive place where you walk on vitrified lava surrounded by fern glens to the crater of the volcano. Then to the panorama of Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain, with its windswept icy moors and ancient forests, to the Great Southern Road returning to Bronte with its urban coastline.
The Penumbra series of work were shown in the Ground Floor Space at Mary Place Gallery in Paddington. While in the First Floor Gallery Patricia Verdan showcased her evocative body of photgraphic works Shadowland. Patricia and I met at the Bundanon Residency and have maintained a professional relationship since.
Anita Traverso from Anita Traverso Gallery visited the gallery during the exhibition and chose a selection of works for the 2007 my up coming group show at her gallery titled Journey 3, Courtenay + Nicholas + Way. Read more about that in year 2008