This series of genre paintings uses humanistic geography’s place making theories, where the atmosphere, or genius loci, has a crucial role in establishing the meanings we attach to our environment. The creative resourcefulness of regional Australia has been concurrently explored.  

The atmosphere can set place processes in motion as efforts are made to make life more pleasing. For example, drought may require the collection of the shower water in buckets. Sometimes the atmosphere must mediate between people going about their business and the geography that surrounds them: the heat of summer is eased with cool aqua wall colours. Or in other places, a new atmosphere is the outcome of particular efforts: the making of petal arrangements in a saucer of water is a cultural practice that helps to create a new mood at the lunch table.

The Mid North of South Australia has been an ideal location to represent these characteristics. The region is alive with a gentleness that seems to emanate from the earth itself.