Late Change, 2018, oil on canvas, 101 x 101 cm

$3,500.00

This work continues an exploration of landscape as a shifting perceptual field, where light and atmosphere destabilise fixed forms. The horizon remains present but is compressed, allowing the sky to dominate as an active, unfolding space rather than a backdrop.

The moment depicted is transitional—after storm, before night—where illumination emerges through density. Light is not rendered as a stable source but as something contingent and fleeting, breaking through layers of cloud and dissolving into surrounding colour.

Paint is handled with a balance of control and release, building a surface where structure and atmosphere are in tension. The silhouetted land anchors the image, but also heightens the instability above it, drawing attention to the way perception moves between clarity and dissolution.

While grounded in the Blue Mountains, the work is less concerned with describing a specific view than with reconstructing an experience of place shaped by memory, sensation and duration.

Medium: Oil paint on stretched canvas
Location: Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Subject: Dusk sky with dramatic clouds over mountainous horizon
Colour palette: Ultramarine, indigo, phthalo blue, yellow, grey, black

This work continues an exploration of landscape as a shifting perceptual field, where light and atmosphere destabilise fixed forms. The horizon remains present but is compressed, allowing the sky to dominate as an active, unfolding space rather than a backdrop.

The moment depicted is transitional—after storm, before night—where illumination emerges through density. Light is not rendered as a stable source but as something contingent and fleeting, breaking through layers of cloud and dissolving into surrounding colour.

Paint is handled with a balance of control and release, building a surface where structure and atmosphere are in tension. The silhouetted land anchors the image, but also heightens the instability above it, drawing attention to the way perception moves between clarity and dissolution.

While grounded in the Blue Mountains, the work is less concerned with describing a specific view than with reconstructing an experience of place shaped by memory, sensation and duration.

Medium: Oil paint on stretched canvas
Location: Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Subject: Dusk sky with dramatic clouds over mountainous horizon
Colour palette: Ultramarine, indigo, phthalo blue, yellow, grey, black

Artwork Specifications

Certification:
This artwork is an original contemporary Australian landscape painting, signed and dated on the back by the artist.

Art Gallery Quality Premium Materials:

  • Art Spectrum and Windsor & Newton oil paints applied over a Matisse Acrylic Gesso

  • 12 oz Cotton Canvas

  • Art Spectrum Heavy Duty Stretcher Bars with cross bracing

Painting Dimensions:
101 cm (h) x 101 cm (w) x 4 cm (d)

How to Install or Hang Your Painting:

The Australian gallery standard recommends hanging a painting so that the mid-point of the artwork (height) is approximately 155 cm from the floor. This may vary depending on ceiling height, interior furniture, or whether it is a space where people will be sitting or standing, such as a living room or dining room.

It is advisable to avoid hanging oil paintings in direct sunlight, as UV can damage the pigment, resulting in discolouration.

Framing:

An original oil painting on stretched canvas of this size and in a contemporary style is often left unframed when installed in art galleries, public or private collections. This work is currently unframed; however, framing can be arranged by agreement. The artwork is ready to hang on Australian gallery standard D-hooks and wire.