The Waratah Forest, 2004

unique digital print on canvas

$4,500

Provenance: The Collection of Gordon and Elaine Syron, NSW
Artwork story: I grew up in a forest that had tall trees and beautiful wildflowers were everywhere. My Grandmother remembers when there were many beautiful waratahs in our forest. She remembers how the poachers came often and took them all to sell in Sydney. We didn't have any waratahs in our forest. I understood the stories because when I was growing up there were beautiful wildflowers everywhere that is why I painted the series "Where The Wildflowers Once Grew" to remember and to explain what happened to the wildflowers and to the waratahs. the wildflowers disappeared suddenly when huge machines came in and thinned all the trees leaving only the very large ones, some large trees were later cut down for timber. The machined took a foot of the rich rainforest soil which were so full of minerals. "The Waratah Forest" is my imagining what our forest used to look like. So I created out of my fantasy, a forest of giant waratahs in this series of paintings where Aboriginal people live like Kings with Aboriginal Fairies.

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b. 1941

unique digital print on canvas

$4,500

Provenance: The Collection of Gordon and Elaine Syron, NSW
Artwork story: I grew up in a forest that had tall trees and beautiful wildflowers were everywhere. My Grandmother remembers when there were many beautiful waratahs in our forest. She remembers how the poachers came often and took them all to sell in Sydney. We didn't have any waratahs in our forest. I understood the stories because when I was growing up there were beautiful wildflowers everywhere that is why I painted the series "Where The Wildflowers Once Grew" to remember and to explain what happened to the wildflowers and to the waratahs. the wildflowers disappeared suddenly when huge machines came in and thinned all the trees leaving only the very large ones, some large trees were later cut down for timber. The machined took a foot of the rich rainforest soil which were so full of minerals. "The Waratah Forest" is my imagining what our forest used to look like. So I created out of my fantasy, a forest of giant waratahs in this series of paintings where Aboriginal people live like Kings with Aboriginal Fairies.