Acrylic, ink and charcoal on canvas 90 x 120cm 
A coastal dune face painted with an expressive urgency that matches the subject's own restless energy. Violet and purple dominate the dune mass — non-naturalistic in the conventional sense but completely truthful in emotional terms. The composition narrows toward a gap in the vegetation through which distant light is glimpsed, describing an hourglass form that gives the painting its title. Sand dunes are among the least permanent of all landforms — always moving, always reforming — and this painting carries that quality of beautiful impermanence in its surface and its colour.
Varnished, wired and presented in a natural Tasmanian Oak floating frame.