Sun Ranch
The first painting from the Sun Ranch residency, Byron Bay, and the one the collection grew from. A wide field of mist sits over the top half, giving way to bands of ochre and olive, with deep browns pressing in from the left and a single flush of pink at the centre. Painted in vertical pulls of the brush, it reads as one landscape seen through weather.
117 × 92 cm · oil on canvas · unframed · [edges painted, wired and ready to hang]
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Held Together by Fog and Tequila
117 × 92 cm, oil on canvas
Collection of Sun Ranch, Byron Bay
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Painted on site at Sun Ranch, Byron Bay, quick and close to the land. Mint and sea-glass greens push against a pale mist, with a slab of ochre anchoring the lower half and a flash of lime breaking in at the corner.
26 × 26 cm · oil on linen panel · framed to order in natural oak
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Painted on site at Sun Ranch, Byron Bay. Apricot light cuts diagonally across pale cliffs of cream and shadow, settling into a wide band of olive green that holds the whole painting down.
26 × 26 cm · oil on linen panel · framed in walnut
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In June 2026 I spent a week painting at Sun Ranch in Byron Bay. It was winter. Most mornings began in fog that sat over the property well into the day, and most afternoons turned gold before the light went. Evenings were spent in the longhouse.
I went with a question I keep coming back to: can a painting hold how a place feels at a particular hour, rather than how it looks? So I didn't paint the view. I painted the fog lifting, the gold arriving, the rust on anything left out in the weather. The palette came down to what the place kept offering, mist-grey, gold, olive and rust, and now and then the sea.
The way I build a painting didn't change. I work in vertical and horizontal pulls of the brush, a structure I trace back to the textiles of Central Asia, where my family is from. Fields of colour sit side by side, each holding its own ground. At Sun Ranch the weave loosened. The forms drifted further apart than they usually do, and I let them.
A week is not long. The large canvases came home unstretched and unfinished, and I resolved them in my studio on the Fleurieu Peninsula, working from memory, photographs and the small studies I made on site. These paintings are as much about remembering a place as being in it.
I trained in environmental science, and I can't look at land without seeing the work it is doing: holding water, holding soil, absorbing whatever we have decided is someone else's problem. Byron is sold as an escape. The titles lean into that, and they are meant to be funny. The paintings sit underneath them, paying attention.
One painting, Held Together by Fog and Tequila, stayed behind. It lives at Sun Ranch now.
