The first in a series of cliff subjects, as viewed from the sea, near Deep Creek at Ungowa, on the western side of Fraser Island. Cliff I, being sandstone, is a remnant of a very old dune system, exposed by the sea … oxides having leached down from the surface over thousands of years, forming the colours seen today.I love the red of this cliff face, bright golds and siennas, but it is the composition that is also alluring, with its rhythmical verticals and horizontals throughout. It’s like a slice of cake, the vertical vein running from top to bottom, and the zig-zag of dark coming from the golden section to the bottom left. We are looking straight at a vertical cliff face, but, in design terms, it is a flat format from top to bottom.
The paint texture is both visual and actual within an accentuated drawn movement (brush marks), showing the directions of both plain and facet, which emphasises surface objectivity. I hope that by showing the structure in this way, as in all my paintings, I can induce a subjective response in the viewer, and get that aesthetic message across.
A thin profile shadow-box frame in natural (brown) pencil cedar, finished the subject well, relating to the reds in the cliff.
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