Early Spring, Black Mountain.

This painting is not of street trees, but from a place where I run or walk at least once a week: Black Mountain in Canberra.

In this painting, looking up towards the summit track, I was interested in the colours: the light Naples yellow of the early wattles; the delicate ochre pinkness of the rocks and the textures of the grass and trees in the distance. The blue metal (used normally on road surfaces) looks almost like water sitting on the surface of the earth. As a material for the track, it’s a bit of an anomaly, and is only in that one spot, but the grey blue is a good contrast to the other colours in the painting.