YOU AND ME AND THE NOBBLY TREE

This artwork is a precious memory of mine. My childhood was spent on Kangaroo Island in South Australia and this is a semi-abstract picture of where we lived. At that time, there were very few houses and we had the beach, sea, rocks and cliffs, and bushland all around us. The blue right hand side is the lower part of our favourite tree which had high and full branches - we loved it and called it The Nobbly Tree. My sister and I would climb high into its branches wearing black balaclavas (inspired by stories like Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven - probably long forgotten now) and we'd play all sorts of of games, usually with other local children who we would call to join us with a series of Indian ululations. Yes it probably sounds very dull to a reader, but childhood memories like this stay with us forever. So You and Me are my dear sister Phyll and I, and it's a nod to all the fun we had playing high in the tree.

This artwork has strong design elements and very nice texture (especially in the tree roots) which the print captures in lifelike detail.