Artist/Gallery notes
I think these paintings were originally influence by Gustav Klimt’s paintings with the landscape at the top or bottom and the rest filled with what I would call pattern. This can be a pattern of apples on trees, reflections on water or buildings on a hillside. The title usually comes out of nowhere but it helps me work out what (if anything) the painting was all about. I think the painting depicts the beautiful mansions on the shore of the Swan River as great castles or prisons. Somehow there is a bleakness about those empty windows and I wonder wether the magnificent ramparts of these expensive and large structures are designed to keep the outside world out or to imprison their inhabitants in glass, like a specimen preserved in formaldehyde in an ancient and dusty museum.