Reaching Out

Reaching Out is a painting about the impulse that connects us to everything — to each other, to the world, to something larger than ourselves. A painting about the reach — the instinct to extend ourselves beyond the familiar, toward the horizon, toward each other, toward whatever comes next.

This work is sold unframed, giving you the freedom to choose a frame that perfectly complements your space and interior. Frames shown in images are for illustration purposes only.

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I grew up in a house that smelled of oil paint, watching my father work without ever being taught. Thirty years on, my paintings stand on loose, accidental grounds, half accident, half intention, made somewhere in the middle where the paint and I meet. That middle is where the series takes its name: The Middle Country. My cockatoos and figures are all one thing, my family, painted over and over in a glowing landscape, with the conviction that real happiness comes from within. Painting full time since 1998, Brisbane, Australia.