These works were exhibited in the Sidney Nolan Riverbend Room at the ANU’s Drill Hall Gallery in 2019.  I loved Sydney’s naked Ned Kelly images in the trees along the Shoalhaven River.  The pinks and greys of the figures and the bush created for me an image of masculine vulnerability.

Likewise, my images, one from the 70’s (Moon Shadow) painted when I had newly arrived in Canberra and other more recent works from 2015 onwards painted by the Shoalhaven were about  a quiet female sexuality.  ‘Alpha and Omega’, a 3 metre watercolour is both uterine and unsurprisingly echoed the low valley of the catchment of the Shoalhaven seen from my woolshed studio. Immanence and Fragile vessel also embody place and felt bodily sensation.