Lyn Graham Cloudy Bay Bruny Oil On Linen 152.5 X 101.5

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Cloudy Bay Bruny by Lyn Graham – Along with my husband and painting buddy, Paul Rees, I spent much of winter 2022 caretaking the Bruny Island Quarantine Station. We spent our days off exploring the island with the hope we would eventually go down every road.

The first time we went to Cloudy Bay, the sleet was almost horizontal and the wind was wild. Other visits were calmer but eventful. One day, I fell in to Sheepwash Creek when I tried to jump across. Another day at the aptly named Whalebone Point, I came upon two vertebrae still joined by cartilage from a sperm whale which had been washed in to the bay twelve months earlier.

I decided to use a large canvas for this painting because there was so much to capture. There was the wonderful sweep of the bay, the beautiful headlands guarding the entrance, the grassy dunes, the creek cutting its way through the sand to the bay, the rain out to sea, the windswept trees, grasses and reeds, the lichen-covered rocks, the rain-washed carpark and, of course, the loo with a view. I hope anyone who looks at this painting will feel how much I love Cloudy Bay.