Beyond The Beehives …
Nadeen slides the last panel into place May 2008
( Oil on eight stretched canvas…total size 16m x 2m )
After 2 years of planning, preparation and painting, the new large painting
is on the wall. Although these large paintings are referred to as murals, technically
that is not correct. A mural is painted directly onto the wall. It is there
to stay, until it is covered over or the wall comes down.
This new work is on canvas. Another technicality...as it is painted on eight,
2 metre square panels, is it ONE painting, or eight ? Definitely ONE. The only
reason for the panels is to allow manoeuvrability. It had to be fitted into
my studio then, moved from studio to gallery. In time, this painting will travel.
The composition is continuous and the composition thought out carefully….. as
one long work.
The title tells the story. The composition contains a continuous scene but it
is actually 45 klm from the location in panel 1. to the depiction of Piccaninny
Creek in panel 8. I wanted to show that the Bungle Bungle massif is made up
of much more than the striped domes known as the Beehives.
The geology and flora has been faithfully depicted in true colour and detail,
about which Nadeen tends to be quite pedantic. Her thinking is …we may not be
able to reproduce the perfection of Mother Nature but in a painting such as
this it is the artists duty to strive for the impossible.
Unveiled on 9th May 2008 , by The Hon. Norman Moore, MLC., who flew up from
Perth for the occasion, this work is already attracting huge interest …as is
deserving of a painting of such minute detail and huge dimension.