The small series of paintings on board are a return to my research into place in regional South Australia. The houses have been ‘cracked open’ to reveal the close and tangible association with the natural environment. The interior aesthetics reveal cheerful flourishes of colour to perhaps counter the more neutral hues found within the expanses outside. The furniture is practical and far from the fashionable magazines, for the transport of furniture is quite a task in itself to such far reaches into Australia’s interior. 

I have tried to portray the ‘reciprocal maintenance between ourselves and the wider world,’ an idea suggested by physicist, mathematician and philosopher John G Bennett. There is an acceptance and cheer in daily living, even though the exterior suggests the 50˚ C summer temperatures, which are the norm. The homes ‘speak for themselves,’ without me needing to paint the people. Life as it is has been sought as a painter’s subject accompanied by an avoidance of perhaps more gothic suggestions of the 'Other'. I hope the acceptance of peoples’ aspects of place will be suggested in these works.