Oil painting by Dai Wynn on canvas on board. 40.6 cm high by 30.5 cm wide by 0.5 cm deep.
On two occasions I have returned from a road trip to Adelaide via the south-eastern region of South Australia. I prefer the quieter roads, the greener pastures and the forests of this route. Clearly, this area has volcanic origins and my task here was to capture the wonderful gritty surfaces of the exposed rocky layers. I have used a small, triangular palette knife to build a composite of rough surfaces by layering oil paints thickly. One could almost compare this technique to sculpture, given that the finished surface is actually three dimensional. The sharp point of the palette knife has been used to scribe ripples flowing away from the ragged column of water.
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