Mountains of Gold — Quamby Bluff II

Quamby Bluff is in Jackey's Marsh, Tasmania, and has been a site of long-running resistance against the logging of old growth forests. It has so far held strong. This painting asks a question that place keeps raising: where is the gold? Is it in the innate beauty and essential life of the natural world, or in what can be extracted from it?

The two answers are not compatible.