Approx. 46 cm (w) x 67 cm (h), oil paints on linen canvas.
Date produced: 1982-1984

This was painted outside entirely on-site, near the swamp next to the Torrens River, West Beach. The swamp can be seen in the painting as an 'orangey line' (dry reeds) located between the trees shown in the background. I wanted to record the colours and tones observed, in a similar way to the landscape paintings of the French Impressionists.

I enjoyed the challenge of trying to express a wide dynamic range of tone and light from a real scene in front of me, onto a canvas using a smaller range of tone available in paint pigments.