Mountains of Gold — Quamby Bluff I

Quamby Bluff sits above Jackey's Marsh in northern Tasmania, rising from the Western Tiers with an almost mystic beauty, especially as snow approaches. This work is built from painted memories — drawings and reference photos gathered over roughly a decade spent in that place. The view is from Jackey's Marsh Road, looking up at the bluff as the weather closes in.

Gold leaf is woven into the paint surface, not as decoration but as a question: where is the gold here? Is it in the metal, or in the light on the mountain, or in the simple fact of a place that has held on against every pressure to give it up?