100x140cm

Acrylic on Canvas, Unframed

The piece ‘Big Skies’ was inspired by my love for colour, movement and texture as well as my love for the big skies and open landscapes that surround where I now call home. Growing up in a farming family, I’ve always felt so deeply connected to nature. When I moved out to Lake Cargelligo, our small remote town in Western NSW, my mother told me “ you’ll fall in love with the big skies”…and she was so right…little did I know I’d fall in love with a farmer as well, and within a few years be engaged, with a beautiful baby, living and painting on the farm. This artwork is a testament to that journey….the sense of feeling at ‘home’ in Lake as soon as I moved here and the sense of making a home with my farmer and our baby boy. ‘Big Skies’ is a testament to my journey of falling in love, finding myself and becoming a mother, that feeling of finally growing into the woman I was meant to be and of continually looking up at the sky counting every blessing.