Trail XIV: 'If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, Any Road Will Get You There'

These four small paintings are impressions of a place.

This is a track, in winter, in the Victorian Highlands, where I walk with my dogs.

The paintings are about our need for the poetry and amplitude of the natural environment, the value of moving through it, and the luxury of silence.  

Rousseau once said; “Never did I think so much, exist so vividly, and experience so much—never have I been so much myself...as in the journeys I have taken alone and on foot.” In this demanding world, access to such time out becomes rarer as it becomes more necessary.