After The Goldrush

After traveling on my own ‘art retreat’ around the area of Hill End I came back to the studio and painted this LOST HORIZONS oil painting “After the Goldrush”. It was painted with glazes of oil paint and brushwork, then a build up of layers of palette knife work, scratching out, dripping, drizzling, mixing new exciting colours with pigments and adding mediums for effect. I wanted to convey a softness of the land, the seams of gold underneath its surface and the colour, strength and beauty.