THE HIGH PLACE

THE HIGH PLACE

A response to recent travels to the Bogong High Plains, the assembled suite of paintings focuses on the interface of land and sky.  A place where light dances and the sky exults, the high plains are a Horizon. The destination of storms, the nursery of mists, mountains and sky are entwined and inseparable. Enmeshed In elaborate conversation, they revolve in intricate arabesques about an axis of the transcendent. Ever changing, ever transforming, from one moment to the next the volatile balance of land and sky shifts from one limit to the other.

Entranced by the spectacle, one is enveiled by instants of profound silence where one is suspended, lost in a moment, yet ever mindful of the coming beginning. The peak is a mound and the vapours are a mountain. Perception of scale is reversed, the familiar is different. Sky and Mountain are dependant yet distinct, circling as creators and created, forever embracing within the horizon of this High Place.