For over ten years I have walked past the tree in this painting, in the bushland near my home in the Lower Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. It has always spoken to me through its form and the seeming impossibility of its survival. As though by a miracle, it emerges from a crevice in the sandstone rock and stands serenely overlooking the valley below.

You can read more about the process of making it, and see images here

Oil on board, unframed, 30 x 30 cm