River Gum, Quilpie.

My father-in-law recently took himself off to outback  Queensland. Knowing my interest in street trees, he would regularly send a picture of a tree from his early morning walks.

I find it interesting to paint from someone else’s vision of a place that I’ve never seen. It’s like looking through someone else’s eyes. I guess it’s something that we all do when we are watching a screen, but it’s a different way for me of crafting a landscape.

Not surprisingly the palette is slightly different to the Canberra tree paintings.