The Land Remembers

The persons depicted in my paintings are not intended to be images of individuals living or deceased. They are my best effort to represent the people I am privileged to see within the land.

I paint what I see and try to understand, because it seems important to those people that I do my best to express what they tell me and show me.

I struggle to hold, and express the appalling grief I receive from many of them. It is my intention that my paintings honour the traditional owners who nurtured this land for countless millennia.

I have come to understand on a personal level that our planet is a living organism. It holds the memory of how to be whole and healthy. Western civilisation continues to treat the land, the environment, the Planet as though it is there to use up, lay waste and destroy.

I believe that the Aboriginal people have a part to play that is of vital importance in Australia's and the World's future. The Older Wisdom of Aboriginal Australians holds some of the missing pieces of the puzzle.