The Amazon 2004 & The Australian Outback 2000David and I spent six weeks in Australia, three of them in the Outback, in June and July 2000. A group of eleven artists, one photographer and a birdwatcher, we took off together from the Great Western Hotel in Cobar, which is 500 miles northwest of Sydney. The brief for the artists was to work towards an exhibition in London at the Bankside Gallery in September 2001. My sense of awe at finding myself in the ancient interior of the Red Continent was something I was lucky enough to repeat, the other side of the world, deep in the Amazon, in February 2004. The circumstances were very different. David, my husband, and I were invited to be guest artists on a Swan Hellenic cruise. Before the cruise we spent five nights in a lodge in the rainforest, and were taken out each day to explore it. The ancient and silent spaces of the flooded forest took hold of my imagination, inspiring a new series of landscape paintings. Click image to enlarge
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