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LIMITED EDITION PRINTS WITH A FOCUS ON LANDSCAPES

Landscape prints aim to capture the features that make our physical environment worth visiting and enjoying. The artwork inspired by the beauty of these places.  While environments in the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland receive the most attention, some prints are from digital paintings that aim to capture other special landscapes elsewhere in Australia.

 

Brief descriptions that are provided below with each print summarise key aspects of the landscape that is featured.

 

(Click on any image to see a larger version. Please note that digital art images on these pages are subject to Copyright and may not be downloaded or copied in any form.) 

Embrace on the Obi Obi

 

Volcanic flows that erupted from the Glass House Mountains area about 27 million years ago spread outwards to build a shield volcano. Erosion since the volcano became extinct has left the Maleny plateau as a remanent of the northern flank of the shield.
 

One of the ancient basalt flows of the plateau is now exposed along Obi Obi Creek where columns, formed when the lava cooled, form a steep creek bank. The columns are somewhat irregular but many are roughly six-sided. Both vertical and horizontal joints (cracks) in the columns provide spaces where tree and plant roots can grow. Here on the Obi Obi close to Gardiners Falls, trees flourish as they embrace the columns to anchor themselves.

  • Embrace on the Obi Obi is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 102 cm x 81 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

Brilliant Baroon

 

Lake Baroon, constructed across Obi Obi Creek in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, is an important water supply dam in the region. It is a quiet recreation lake where only electric powered boats and paddle craft are permitted on the water. Fishing, swimming, and walking the surrounding trails are also popular activities.

 

Calm weather conditions, assisted in part by the protection provided by the hills encircling Baroon Pocket where the dam is nestled, enables beautiful reflections to form on the still waters of the lake at midday.

  • Brilliant Baroon is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 102 cm x 76 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

Obi Obi crossing

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Obi Obi Creek in southeast Queensland drops around 435 m over a distance of some 53 kilometres to flow into the Mary River. The stream passes through the township of Maleny.

 

Basalt outcrops and rocks upstream from Gardners Falls enable walkers on a branch of the Maleny Trail to work their way across the stream.

  • Obi Obi crossing is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 102 cm x 76 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

Tea Tree Bay

 

The coastal track in Noosa National Park winds by a number of small northerly-facing bays within the rocky headland.

 

Tea Tree Bay is a popular destination for surfers accessing the point break at the eastern end of the bay. Rocky outcrops from the point give way westwards to sand littered with boulders and cobbles, and finally to a safe sandy swimming beach where the backshore zone is lined with pandanus trees and shaded by tea trees.

 

The environment of Tea Tree Bay caters for surfers, swimmers, and walkers. Near midday, the deep shade afforded by the tea trees invites walkers to rest while the lone pandanus in the painting stands guard.

  • Tea Tree Bay is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 91 cm x 61 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

Bank of the Obi Obi

 

Pathways comprising the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk wind 58 km through the Kondalilla, Mapleton, and Mapleton Falls National Parks. Walkers are rewarded with spectacular views of waterfalls, rock pools, and gorges within forests ranging from subtropical to tall open eucalypt types. Wildlife is abundant. 

 

The most westerly section of the Great Walk within the Kondalilla National Park follows Obi Obi Creek for a few hundred metres. In this area, resistant rhyolitic rocks of the North Arm Volcanics crop out to form a moss-encrusted bank overlooking quiet waters. Walkers who pause are reinvigorated by an environment where beautiful reflections seem to reach appreciatively towards the overarching foliage that creates them.

  • Bank of the Obi Obi is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 102 cm x 76 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

Wuruma

 

Lake Wuruma, situated on the Nogo River between Monto and Eidsvold, provides irrigation for the region's agriculture as well as being a recreation facility for water activities such as boating, canoeing, sailing, fishing and swimming.

 

Early morning light at Wuruma touches boulders of the Wingfield Granite on a granitic sandy shore in a tranquil scene disturbed only by ripples formed by waterbirds moving to deeper water.

  • Wuruma is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 91 cm x 61 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

Obi Obi tributary

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In the late afternoon along a tributary of Obi Obi Creek where basalt boulders are strewn along the waterway, the sun just catches distant trees.

  • Obi Obi tributary is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 102 cm x 76 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

Clarence River morning

 

The Clarence River is a major stream in northern New South Wales. Most of its drainage basin is heavily forested. However where the stream is close to the coast near its mouth that separates the coastal townships of Yamba and Iluka, the river is wide and meanders peacefully through farmland at those times when it is not in flood.

 

In the tranquility afforded by the soft light at dawn, without a ripple on the water, a fisherman's tinnie awaits its owner.

  • Clarence River morning is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 102 cm x 61 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

Quiet area of the Ord

 

Stretching 320 kilometres through the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the Ord River is one of the most stunning river systems in Australia. Stream flow along the 55 kilometre segment of the river between Lake Argle and Lake Kununurra is rapid due to water being released downstream from Lake Argyle for the Ord River Irrigation System. Since the time of construction of these two artificial lakes in the 1960's and 1970's, the intervening stretch of the river has had more than 50 years to develop its own thriving ecosystem; the richness in wildlife, flora and scenic beauty along this stretch accordingly makes it a popular destination for nature-based tourism.

 

Visitors journeying the 55 kilometres down the Ord River from Lake Argyle to Kununurra are rewarded with views ranging from immense gorge walls to peaceful river scenes. Significant wildlife includes crocodiles and abundant birdlife. In a quiet area on the Ord, just away from the major stream flow, still waters host water lillies and display beautiful reflections.

  • Quiet area of the Ord is printed on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame

  • Large prints: canvas dimensions 91 cm x 61 cm

  • Limited edition prints (25 in total) are individually signed and numbered by the artist

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