Lyneham Motor Inn

Lyneham Motor Inn
Mixed media (acrylic and oil paint) on canvas
120cm x 90cm x 4cm
$1000

The Lyneham Motor Inn is iconic in a disappearing 1970’s Motel Inn kind of way, and I’ve been watching its decline since about then. I don’t think it ever was a building with a heyday. 

I think it might be low-cost student accomodation now. You might be disappointed if you arrived from overseas to study at the prestigious ANU and found yourself ensconced in the Lyneham Motor Inn. I imagine it’s awful inside. Or maybe it’s just peachy: chenille bedspreads in apricot, is what I’m picturing. 

I keep expecting to turn around and find the Inn suddenly replaced by another block of flats.

In the middle of the day, the shaped conifers out the front look spectacular against the pink of the building and I like the addition of the graffiti to the side wall. 

In homage to the fading glory of both the Motor Inn and the picture postcard, this painting was an experiment in highly saturated techno-colour.