Winner of the Adelaide Hills Landscape Arts Prize 2021

The aged Apple Orchard at Lenswood extracts something deep within. A quiet consciousness envelops on arrival, thought becomes poetic and colour becomes a technical tool. Atop the Lenswood hill, overwhelming beauty is significant. I launched into creating paintings en plein air in February 2021, immersing myself in the entire detail. By July I had passed my apprenticeship and August found me hitting my stride. Gradually the detail diffused and significant heroines emerged in the landscape; wind energy, solar power, air, rain and the soil on which I created my paintings. I have based my painting upon these protagonists.