Coral Trees
Painted at Eudlo a small village on the railway line to Nambour where I lived in hard conditions for three years (1979-1982). These coral trees were the remnant of a long abandoned grand garden where the house was gone and only these non-native trees planted in a row suggested a past. The bright orange-red blooms invited dabs of my fingers fluttering across the canvas, even the stringy branches are drawn with a finger nail or a twig. I laid down the background with my palm and shaped shrubs and hills with my fingers, wiping areas back with a rag. Pictures like this took me about an hour and I would sell them at local art events or when I had twenty plus works an exhibition would happen.