AFTER THE FLOODS

On my 8 day painting trip on the banks of the recently flooded Paroo River, at Eulo, far Western Queensland, this painting was for me, a road less travelled. More abstract and disconnected, and it refused to be organised along my known paths. I've been wanting to move in a more abstract direction and this artwork seems to be a step along the way. I've had to resist 'fixing' things, connecting things and even making things look like things. It was a surprise to me how good it felt to let go of my usual 'rules' or habits. And it surprised me to see that it did somehow embody the way the landscape felt to me, just a few weeks after it was 6 metres underwater....