Bealiba Range

Living for several years in north-central Victoria gave me the opportunity to develop an intimate relationship with the rugged local terrain.  The long, hot summers and cold winters seem such a contrast to Melbourne, just two hours drive away.

Bealiba Range 2                     Oil On Canvas
2013

Bealiba Range is a low range of stony hills a few kilometres north of Dunolly in the goldfields region of Victoria.  The intention with this work is not to romanticize, beautify or even soften the landscape but to present it as the thing in itself - a harsh, dry. stony landscape where people eke out a marginal living as best they can.