Beautiful Scrubland #13 continues my quiet study of the inland bush — that intricate weave of trunks, grasses, and light that hums just beyond the edge of the familiar.
 
This work, like others in the Beautiful Scrubland series, looks closely at what is often passed by: the small harmonies of colour and form that make the ordinary landscape luminous.
 
Using oil and wax on board, I build the surface slowly, allowing layers to hold both gesture and stillness. The wax draws light inward; pigment and texture blur, echoing the complexity of dry stems, bark, and shadow. Each mark becomes a trace of time — of growth, decay, and renewal — as if the painting itself has weathered alongside the land it observes.
 
The scrubland offers a certain humility. It does not demand attention; it asks for it. Within its tangle lies rhythm and balance — tones of ochre, green, and grey breathing against one another like quiet music. Through painting, I try to translate that sense of endurance, of quiet persistence within harshness.
In Beautiful Scrubland #13, form and atmosphere merge into something felt rather than described.
 
The work holds a pause — a moment between noticing and remembering, between seeing and belonging. I hope the viewer senses that same stillness: the pulse of light through foliage, the hush that settles when we stop long enough to look.
 
Ultimately, this series is an invitation — to regard the overlooked, to honour the subtle beauty of resilience, and to find in the unremarkable a quiet grace that endures.
 
60cm x 50cm oil and wax on card 2025