Elizabeth Doidge Compare use of Fences
In 1993,
having just recommenced painting, we were living on a property with really bad fences.
Crouched in the far corner of a dry and dusty paddock, winding yet more
wire round holes ripped out by 'roos, I looked up and saw the painting. The landscapes behind the
first two Fences were the flat paddocks of Currency Creek in S Australia
but now we are surrounded by the hills that now appear in
most of my landscapes. Over the years I have
collected old cyclone, barbed wire, baler twine, droppers and numerous
photos of fence posts, and I keep on coming back to it. It's the barrier.
The Fences have the difficulty that the background has
to be nearly finished before the wire is added, which
immediately changes the entire balance.
