The Gateway

Every fence has a place where it opens, and the birds have known about it all along. Some of us walk through, and some of us find we were never on the outside to begin with.

The gate sits low in the foreground while the cockatoos settle through the trees above it, some perched, some already in the air. The ground was poured first, half accident and half intention, and everything else was painted into it without hesitation. Part of The Middle Country, an ongoing series about the place we always find ourselves in, somewhere between something bigger and something smaller.

Painted in acrylic on board, 30 x 20 cm. Ready to hang. Certificate of authenticity included. Ships worldwide direct from my studio in Brisbane, Australia.

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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.