The Piercing Land at Chambers Gallery, Christchurch

This series of works are not paintings of a place, they are flickers of memories of a glimpse from the corner of my eye while driving back home through the Lewis pass. We are all pierced through by the land which grounds us. The rivers, hills and rocks of Tairawhiti Gisborne and Otautahi Christchurch have sunk deep and the landscapes I paint have become a reflection of my interior world. Time overlays memories, obscuring them and distancing them from the originally perceived reality. Even when physically present the eye captures glimpses and restrings them together. When we remember, it is that collection we recall and draw in our mind.