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| I’ve always been drawn to the country. As a child I’d play in the local woods near my family home in England, often for hours on end - building camps, traipsing through fields and exploring golf courses. Since 1997 my inspiration and home has been the Mornington Peninsula here in Australia, and again I find myself out exploring the countryside – sketching and painting constructed landscapes created by the tree and fence lined properties. I strip back the elements to simple abstracted forms and aim to draw the viewer into the work. These works become for me, links to my memories and the paths I have chosen.
The newest series of paintings are of my wanderings between Flinders and Cape Schanck, based on a mixture of my onsite sketches and Google Earth to help piece together my journeys.
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