30/09/23 Heavy Wind and Rain

Sitting with the trees –

This grouping of paintings brings together three separate threads of work, all situated in the wild pine and native bush that populates the land near where I am living. Puponga point in the Waitakere rangers, now covered in old pine trees, the remnants of a rumored work for the dole scheme tree planting in the 80’s. Unmonitored trees crash to the ground in their own time while amongst the carnage of splintered wood new clumps of native bush or weeds emerge. There is a left alone forgottenness about this situation that I kind of like and find the quietness appropriate ground for the uneasiness of the current world to permeate the paintings with worried whispers.