My treescapes are a celebration of these magnificent living beings that we turn to for sustenance emotionally, physically and spiritually. These are Corymbia Tessaslaris’s, eucalypts of Gooreng Gooreng country, North of Bundaberg Qld that filled the headlands looking out over ‘Bustard Bay’. That was until a wooden boat arrived with a people who didn’t care much for trees such as these and for the 200 years+ since have sought to remove them for ‘unhindered coastal views’ and such.
These trees are a cool refuge from the harsh sun of our warming climate, purifying our air, providing habitat and sustenance for a myriad of beings – bird, insect , reptile and mammal and delighting us with their ethereal inspiring and uplifting beauty. A tree provides hope and calm in its solid reassuring presence.
The light is just after dawn when colours are most luminous – the first rays striking the uppermost boughs and filtering down through the smooth almost flesh like limbs to the coarse rough darkness of the thick tessellated bark.
My medium is oil paint that lends itself beautifully in its fluidity to the flow of light and shade and texture and hue. I work wet into wet, weaving brushstrokes across the vast surface in a continuous process responding to the visuals of that nanosecond of early light captured.
Judith Sinnamon, 2024
Image: Gooreng Gooreng Treescape #32024, oil on linen, 104 x 134 cm
