Oil paint on canvas
97.1 X 60 cm
2026
 
At first, I planned to use a landscape format but the drama of those cloud towers in my head made me go vertical. 
I left a wide unpainted border to emphasise that the painted areas are arbitrary shapes. I stopped them short or deliberately “transgressed” and let them run out to the edge of the canvas. The clouds break through the top border and a stream runs out diagonally across the lower left quadrant, filling a dry weather track with water. 
 
Termite mounds echo the shape of the clouds. I softened their outlines and played down the ribbing they usually show, to suggest that early drops of rain were already softening them. Another group of colours: ochres and browns.
 
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