The Wonder Of It

The Wonder of It

We are so quick to make life heavy, when the plain fact of any of it happening at all is astonishing. Stand still for a moment and the whole thing turns back into a marvel.

This is one of my Middle Country paintings, the cockatoo and outback series at the centre of my art. It comes from a poured ground, half accident and half intention, colour left to find its own shape before I meet it, and the rest is painted loosely and without second-guessing.

I keep returning to the idea that we live always somewhere in the middle, never fully arrived, never fully gone. This one sits inside that space, a hillside carrying on in full colour, nothing about it solemn.

Painted in acrylic on MDF board. Ready to hang, with a certificate of authenticity included.