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Windbreak

Windbreak

2007
Oil on canvas
102 x 76 cms

The windiness of the southern Australia coast requires the use of windbreaks to shelter agriculture. This highly controlled picture was built with a fairly undifferentiated dot granularity and thus has a quiet static quality reinforced by the low horizon line and symmetrical composition. However, the treatment suits the quiet rural aspect of this piece of landscape through which I drive almost daily.