I have visited the arid zone of remote Fowlers Gap Research station in NSW, 110km North West of Broken Hill continuously for the past 3 years. ‘Goldflitter’ is an accumulated response to these visits that reflects on our sensitive and binding relationships with the landscape and a tender love of the land.

Motivated by a sensitivity to the subtle colour and light of far west NSW and primed with personal experience, the painting reveals an ongoing attempt to portray reality in a way that liaises not with literal representation but feeling, memory and thought.

The title is drawn from a line in the novel 'Sea of Tranquility' by Emily St. John Mandel "Swimming stars with goldflitter". This line has stayed with me since reading and creeped in to influence the painting.

‘Goldflitter’ is the first painting I created after my son Elio was born. I am interested in exploring a compositional density and a compression of space, in a way that feels all-consuming, yet passive and gentle at the same time.