LETTERS FROM BYRON is inspired by Byron Bay, a place of beauty, movement and attraction, drawing people from around the... Read More
LETTERS FROM BYRON is inspired by Byron Bay, a place of beauty, movement and attraction, drawing people from around the world to its coastline, light and restless energy. The work reflects the atmosphere of time spent there: the pull of the sea, the shifting weather, fragments of memory, and the sense that many stories pass through the landscape.
The title also plays with Byron’s namesake. Cape Byron was named by Captain James Cook after Vice Admiral John Byron, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron. I imagined what Lord Byron might have written had he arrived in this place today, what letters, observations or emotional traces he may have left behind.
The painting moves between abstraction and figuration, suggesting waves, bodies, fragments, playfulness and memory. It is a response to Byron Bay as both a real coastal place and an imagined poetic landscape.
