My travel companion is a purple teardrop caravan which I bought some years ago in Iron Knob, South Australia. Its a homemade caravan, built in the 1960s. It's made of wood, therefore very light...so light i can push it around the campsite with my big toe. I did the 'purple pod' up over some time, painting it purple and putting an aluminium skin over the top to protect it little more from the weather. I certainly attract attention when pulling it around the place. Its so small and compact, its smaller than my 4wd. I travelled solo around Australia with it and it suited me perfectly.

After travelling around Australia, I found that I could not draw places I was only visiting, you have to live there. You can sketch and find some inspiration but ultimately I found I could not produce final works from these experiences. If I did I would feel like a fraud. Hence my work is based on the landscapes around the upper Spencer Gulf where I lived and Port Stephens where I live now. The two places are antithesis to each other but upon exploring the forms, there are strong familiarities between the shapes. Perhaps the two are merging, forming a psychological landscape. Ultimately I have learned from my work that there is a struggle to 'connect' with the landscape. All we can connect with is a 'view' we have of it. The search for connection ironically distances ourselves from the land, through our need to romanticise it.

This led me to a fascination with colour swatches I would collect from hardware stores. The incredible names for colours and its references to nature brought to mind a variety of issues that paralleled my interest in our search for connection with nature, hence my new body of work, Landswatch.