Shade Tree, Broken Hill
100 x 65cm
Oil on canvas
$4200
Painting and drawing in and around Broken Hill, NSW for 3 weeks in 2024, I worked on a series of watercolours and inks from the top of the Line of Lode. Most interesting to me was being up on this huge mound of rubble beside the main street of Broken Hill. From such a vantage point I could see down the streets and across the town.
When I returned to Sydney I worked from these observational drawings on a series of paintings including this one ‘Shade Tree, Broken Hill’. I focused on the huge Moreton Bay fig tree on the corner of Sulphide and Argent Streets, opposite the famous Palace Hotel.
