Painting above Standley Chasm, West MacDonnell Ranges, June 2011. Painting fast because a) that’s how I paint, b) the light was going and c) it was freezing. The two studies completed from this spot are below.

This trip to Central Australia formed the basis for a body of studio work over the next four or five months. In some cases the studio work had a direct relationship to the plein air studies…

‘Above gorge country I’ 80 x 109cm Oil on primed paper on canvas 2011