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Lake Mungo Trip '98 |
The Flinders Ranges
National Park – is located 460km north of Adelaide
in South Australia. It stands in sharp contrast to the arid plains that
surround it.These spectacular mountain ranges have many unique naturally
formed geological features such as Wilpena Pound, Brachina Gorge and the
Bunyeroo Valley, amongst many others.With its diverse fauna and flora,
archaeological significance, changing moods, light, color and mysterious
sense of spirituality it has become a popular destination for tourists and
artists alike since the 1930’s.My regular painting trips to this region
have been truly inspiring, providing me with a wealth of visual
information and stimulation. |
Mungo
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Lake
Mungo National Park - is located approximately 150km
northeast of Mildura in the southwest corner of New South Wales.This
fascinating eroded landscape was once a great inland lake 20km long and
15m deep, before drying up 15,000 years ago.Its banks are lined by the
curiously shaped sandhills known as the Walls of China which are laden
with archaeological finds of world significance. This location, with its
unique geological features, anthropological importance, flora and history
first captured my imagination when I first visited the area as an art
student in 1992. As a result, I have since returned on numerous painting
trips to the region and as a consequence pictures of Lake Mungo figure
predominantly amongst my landscape painting output. |
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Dimboola- is one of many numerous small towns dotted along Victoria’s
northern Wimmera–Mallee region.It is situated in the Wimmera wheat belt,
in the state’s northwest and is in close proximity to the Little Desert
and Wyperfeld National Parks.This flat landscape, made notorious by Arthur
Boyd’s 1948-49 paintings of the area, has a sense of unbroken horizons and
an expanse of sky that elicits an acute sense of the
infinite. |
