Killing Fields 56cm X 56cm oil on linen Australian Landscape

Killing Fields 56cm X 56cm oil on linen Australian LandscapeThis work is from my series looking at deforestation. It was a study for a larger work of the same name and finalist in the 2025 Calleen Art Award at the Cowra Regional Art Gallery in NSW. This was the entry notes that I wrote about the painting. Killing fields The film The Killing Fields came out in 1984 when I was studying plant biology at Uni. Whilst the film was about the destruction of lives in Cambodia, I was studying another kind of

Whilst the film was about the destruction of lives in Cambodia

It looked to manicured - a state I don't really identify as typical of the Australian landscape

but set to work to make it a forest

I decided I didn't like the finished work

with half what’s felled

but it never has

It was a study for a larger work of the same name and finalist in the 2025 Calleen Art Award at the Cowra Regional Art Gallery in NSW

I'm sure this presents as a curious title for a painting

Back then I believed that the trajectory would change

left to rot

but it refers to the journey the work has had in the making

that of the environment