Setting Sun

This small painting presents a slightly abstract vision of the Australian bush at dusk, where atmosphere and mood take centre stage. Layers of softly undulating colour stretch across the horizon—muted greens, pale blues, warm creams, apricots, and mauves—suggesting distant ranges fading into one another beneath a wide sky.

In the foreground, dark, spindly tree branches rise like silhouettes, twisting and reaching upward. Their stark forms cut across the softer bands of colour, creating an eerie, almost skeletal presence that hints at the mysterious character of the bush at twilight.

A small, glowing red sun hovers low on the horizon, its warmth contrasting with the cooler tones around it. The bold simplicity of the shapes and the flattened layers of colour give the work a slightly stylised, dreamlike quality.

The painting captures that quiet, slightly unsettling moment as day slips into night in the Australian landscape—beautiful, vast, and just a little bit haunting.