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Lyn Graham Currawinya Oil On Linen 91.5 X 61
  • Lyn Graham Currawinya Oil On Linen 91.5 X 61
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Currawinya by Lyn Graham – During the 2021 Covid lockdowns, I travelled 8,000 km through outback Queensland with my husband and fellow artist, Paul Rees. The Enormous Vastness series is inspired by the beauty of the landscapes we saw.

The series title is a line from a song called ‘Droving Woman’ by Australian Aboriginal singer-songwriter Kev Carmody. He wrote: ‘The enormous vastness of them inland plains gives a lonely contentment to which you can’t put a name, it’s satisfied glow city folks seldom attain, they spend life on a right rigid rail’. This became the theme song for our journey.

Outback Queensland is hard but beautiful. Years go by without rain but 2021 was the first of three wet years so there was abundant vegetation and birdlife.

There are never many people there but, during Covid, there were even fewer than usual. Sometimes we would drive all day and not see another car.

We took lots of photos and painted most days because there was always something beautiful to see if we slowed right down. We would quietly paint in watercolours near a creek or waterhole for two or three hours. After a while, the native animals and birds got used to our presence. One day, two emus came in for a drink only metres away.

These photos and watercolours became the basis for our oil paintings which we completed over 18 months back in our Brisbane studio.

‘Currawinya’ depicts the landscape in the national park adjoining Kilcowera Station where we stayed for a week in the shearers’ quarters. This western edge of the park can be reached only through the Station. We could see a vast lake in the distance and decided to walk there. There were purple flowers in the red soil as far as the eye could see. As the sun was setting, the lake appeared no closer and we knew we would never reach it before dark. It was a strange landscape I’ll never forget.

I hope these paintings give you a feeling for the fragile beauty of outback Queensland.

Currawinya

Lyn Graham

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Currawinya by Lyn Graham – During the 2021 Covid lockdowns, I travelled 8,000 km through outback Queensland with my husband and fellow artist, Paul Rees. The Enormous Vastness series is inspired by the beauty of the landscapes we saw.

The series title is a line from a song called ‘Droving Woman’ by Australian Aboriginal singer-songwriter Kev Carmody. He wrote: ‘The enormous vastness of them inland plains gives a lonely contentment to which you can’t put a name, it’s satisfied glow city folks seldom attain, they spend life on a right rigid rail’. This became the theme song for our journey.

Outback Queensland is hard but beautiful. Years go by without rain but 2021 was the first of three wet years so there was abundant vegetation and birdlife.

There are never many people there but, during Covid, there were even fewer than usual. Sometimes we would drive all day and not see another car.

We took lots of photos and painted most days because there was always something beautiful to see if we slowed right down. We would quietly paint in watercolours near a creek or waterhole for two or three hours. After a while, the native animals and birds got used to our presence. One day, two emus came in for a drink only metres away.

These photos and watercolours became the basis for our oil paintings which we completed over 18 months back in our Brisbane studio.

‘Currawinya’ depicts the landscape in the national park adjoining Kilcowera Station where we stayed for a week in the shearers’ quarters. This western edge of the park can be reached only through the Station. We could see a vast lake in the distance and decided to walk there. There were purple flowers in the red soil as far as the eye could see. As the sun was setting, the lake appeared no closer and we knew we would never reach it before dark. It was a strange landscape I’ll never forget.

I hope these paintings give you a feeling for the fragile beauty of outback Queensland.

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