45.5 cm (w) x 65.5 cm (h), oil paints on cotton canvas.
Date produced: 1988 - 1992

This was painted completely on-site, on the side of a back street in Glenelg. This little tree looked fabulous in the sunlight. I tried to paint it as directly and as boldly (with simple strokes of thick paint) as I could, working within a reasonably narrow window of time (about an hour), at the same time on several days of similar weather conditions. Because I only had a narrow window of time in which to work on this painting on any day, I tried to work as quickly as possible, and tried to work on the image as a whole, rather than getting bogged down working on fine details!