This painting started off as Tree, Shed and Hills. I did it for the Tattersall's Prize, which is the only competition I enter now. I simply don't have the body of work to keep sending it away, and my paintings aren't the sort of things that win big national prizes. But the Tatts is always well hung, is entered by invitation only and has very good exposure. It also involves a most welcome trip to Brisbane to visit the artist, Elizabeth Duguid, whose work also hangs there. But I ran myself too close to the deadline, the painting died, and here it is in its new incarnation + a new tree, a figure, and a lot more colour, as Party No 4.

Anyway, the ageing bessa-block shed is in a back yard in the middle of Mannum, though the windows and door come from a woolshed nearby. I liked the flat, mean look to the shape of the shed, crouched solidly under the vacant hills, and filled with people in party hats. The figure was striding towards me down Rundle Mall in Adelaide.

**See other attempts at the hills in the Compare Use of Hills Page, and parties in the Compare Parties Page.