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 in the 1998 - 99 Gallery. I had also subscribed to the magazine Track and Field and the first painting from that series was Women Running in the 1996 - 97 Gallery. 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.  An aerial view (photographed from a Virgin flight back from Sydney) is in the 2002 - 2003 Gallery.