This body of work has been painted 'plein air' or directly from the landscape and mostly finished at the time of painting. This way of working has an immediacy which is one of my biggest pleasures. Spending all day immersed in wilderness searching and finding surprising colours, forms, light and textures and trying to create both an emotional and visual response has been a most rewarding experience. Using mediums of gouache and watercolour and feeling it slide across the paper expressing the movement of the wind, texture of a banksia or the colour of a gnarly bark has given me the language to express my deep love for the Australian bush.