This Artwork is currently on display in an exhibition. It is available for sale through This Fine Day, Mitcham. Please contact me with your enquiry.
 
The Weight of Weather responds to a specific encounter with the Lake Albert and Coorong landscape during a significant storm. The work was developed from that accumulated sensory experience: the sky pressing down with physical weight, the vast flat country offering no resistance.
The Coorong's extreme horizontality is compressed into a near-square format, intensifying every tension. The sky presses harder, the land feels more fragile and besieged.
The painting is built from collaged, century-old book pages, paint, sanding and repainting, a material process mirroring the landscape itself, where layers of history and ecological meaning lie beneath what is visible. The warm ochre at the horizon is remnant paper showing through, a physical rather than painted presence of Younghusband Peninsula. A vast reflective foreground evokes shallow water and salt lakes.
Above it all, a sky carrying everything.
 
100 x 90 cm mixed media framed in a stained Tasmanian oak floating frame