This image comes from a fleeting moment from the car window as we drove home from Castlemaine along the Hume Highway one late Autumn evening. All colour was drained from the landscape rendering the hills, grass and trees deep purple browns and inky blues. The sky glistened with the afterlight of the sunset. Across the horizon of the hills above my eyeline it glowed the palest pastel orange fading to white and changing to the clear lightest blue, to the heavens above. Silhouettes of the trees and horizon line were sharp in contrast to this remnant light. Stunning.
And so, on my return home, holding that image still in my mind I began to draw. Firstly in pencil – devoid of colour. Then moving to coloured pencils, watercolours next and then onto oils. Trying to capture the light and that momentary memory.
I am interested in re-creating the memory of an image I glimpse. Can I capture the essence of a glance and the emotions it brings? I am interested in how many colours make up the one colour we think we see and how I may fragment that. This painting is the result.
