Landscape with Farm Gate

94 x 86 cms  1998

$2100 Sold

I did this painting with the intention of entering it for the inaugural  Fleurieu Landscape prize but it was hung in the Adelaide Greenhill Gallery first and, to my surprise, sold immediately. Until then, I had had no success with work left at Greenhill, but had not approached other galleries, assuming my work was not good enough.

There is a photograph of the original quagmire on the Compare Mud Page and the gate plus more baler twine belonged to a neighbour.

The figure had appeared propping up a lamp post right in the foreground of a set of photographs I took outside a Centrelink office while looking for bog-standard, ordinary men walking from left to right, for the first Fence painting. I have used him twice more, for the arrogance of his jutting bum, and his feet appear in  Empty Wheel Arch, painted in 2004.

He is leaning against a South Australian Stobie pole, visually strong electricity poles made from concrete sandwiched in steel.