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  • 1997 Landscape with Man Running No 1
  • $1600 Sold
  • Gallery 1963 - 2011
  • Compare use of Hills

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  • 2003 Landscape with Man Running No 2
  • $3500 Sold
  • Resold 2006 for $7000
  • Gallery 1963 - 2011
  • Compare use of Hills

Many years ago I became obsessive about people jogging and running, so I went off to photograph fun runs, etc but it didn't work - the runners kept turning and smiling at me, or sticking their chests out and posing. A lot of them ended up in Joggers No 2 (1999). I had also subscribed to the magazine Track and Field and the first painting from that series was Women Running (1996). I also found a photograph of a man running a cross-country race, which was outstanding amongst the hundreds of other images I accumulated, so I have used it twice.

The landscape behind the first painting is of the foothills at the south-western end of the Mount Lofty Ranges, close to Goolwa in S Australia, while the landscape behind the second is across the top of the north-eastern end of the same hills, close to where we now live. The rocks really are covered in graffiti, though there aren't quite so many of them.