This project was conceived to respond to the geographic range that the medical accomodation at Macquarie Home Stay serves. My brief was to create a “backdrop” on the highway side of the 100 x 2.5 metre barrier wall ( in 2 parts), representing the mountains to the plains. This makes it a very large landscape painting, using industrial processes and brushes the size of brooms for my calligraphic tree lines. On the verso I have painted a hedge to bring a sense of privacy and quiet for the visitors.
To represent the diversity of our regional community, I have invited other artists to over-paint sections of my landscape. The artists chosen are John Murray (Lightning Ridge), Lewis Burns (Dubbo Wirradjuri), Pietro Dudek (Rome, Dubbo on a working visa), and Gill Pedrana (Dubbo). The landscape painting provides the unifying curtain to these voices in humour, tradition, vitality and thoughtfulness as represented by the motifs depicted by the featured artists.
Site visitors to the East wall
Image: Pietro Dudek
