Windswept at Tibooburra

Candyss has been a painter all her life; she loves to walk & explore the land. She has a deep affinity and respect for the landscape, the ocean and our environment. “My connection with the land becomes an inward journey, where memory and creative process reshapes the external experience, allowing the paint, memory and inner sight to spontaneously create new colours, textures and lines in the “inner landscape” that then evolves. I want to re-create the feeling of openness and expansiveness that I experience when I’m out in the middle of nowhere or at a quiet beach or under the sea at one with nature – just the sky, the ocean around me or the earth under my feet and me. I seem so small and at one with it all. I want people who view my work to be lifted into that space, to share similar experience and feeling.”
‘WINDSWEPT TIBOOBURRA’ is a large DIRT LINES statement piece. The painting was created with layers of oil paint using a palette knife, scratching back and thick brushwork. Candyss has used iridescent pigments in the process creating unique and unsual colours using a limited colour palette. The result is a successful and strong abstract artwork that exudes the spirit of the Australian outback.