Farm Series Lookbook
This collection is a celebration of my family farm and the connection my family have to this land. We have lived here for 3 generations and so much love has been poured into this property with my Dad creating nature corridors along the paddocks and spending many years learning to work with the land to allow it to flourish. Returning back here as an adult gives me instant clarity and a feeling of calm that I think can only be experienced when out in nature, with only the sounds of the wind and wildlife to entertain you.
In this collection I used the technique of an acrylic pour to add texture and to create an unpredictable nature to the patterns formed on each piece, then I combined this with a more realistic technique to bring each piece into an easily recognisable form. I hope the use of these techniques mimics the complexities of our natural environment and draws in the viewer to look for the fine details created, encouraging more focused attention to these details when out exploring in their own worlds.
I also hope these pieces bring an element of nostalgia as they were created in a time when I could not visit the place I longed to visit and coincidently a lot of love and longing to be in the presence of these places was poured into each piece. A small snippet of one of my Dad’s poems has been used to name each piece, with his full poem entitled 'The Farm' at the end of the page.
I really hope you enjoy this collection as much as I enjoyed creating it.
Enjoy x
There are 5 remaining pieces from this collection that are available.
The River Song
The Farmer
The Farm
Just Look Around
Stay Strong
We would like to acknowledge the Yorta Yorta people as the Traditional Owners of the land that inspired this series, we would also like to acknowledge the Wathaurong people of the Kulin Nations as the the Traditional Owners of the land we work and live on.
We may think we have the answers
We may push our commercial world
But when it comes to the ultimate game
Nature has the ultimate resolve
As money is in the background
It's the sleeper that's for sure
When you want to grow the environment
The bank wants you to mine more
Mine the minerals in the soil
Mine the wealth it stores
Because short term wealth
Is what they want you to explore
So if you are here for the journey
If you want the land to grow
Now you are in a predicament
How do you make this financial balance so
As someone for the long term
I hate the chase of cash
The pressure it yearns
The environment it will smash
So I try to do things
That may come from plan two
Let's help the environment
But make enough money too
So I look at things
That the soil will enjoy
That gives the soil more minerals
For the plants to explore
I am looking for a journey
That has a balance within
The ability to have a profit
But the environment also wins
The Farm
I have a place
That gives you everything
Emotional love , enjoyment
A place where the family can join in
It's a place where it's beauty
It's quietness will impress
The animals and birds
A habitat with no regrets
To feel the peace it brings
The emotional love it creates
To animals of all creation
A habitat you can't dictate
This place has special meaning
I want my family to enjoy
To love and give to the environment
No money could find more
The silence is defining
The beauty is within
How can't you love a place
Where the environment is everything
In the morning sun
I watch as a child
How the wilderness unfolds
And things are so naturally wild
How we as humans
Can connect to this world
They have one thousand stories
That are yet to unfold
The living and dyeing of nature
Is the real king
For they have learnt the balance
Of what life should bring
The cost of doing this
The cost to the soil
If one bad year comes of this
The expense will make you boil
So how do you get a balance
How can you grow within
It's up to the consumer
To tell us who will win
The consumer has the power
To control what's right and wrong
To demand the quality food
That they believe is strong
So we need to tell the story
Of what we are trying to do
To create an environment
And grow food that is true
True to your health values
True to what you want done
To enhance the environment
For your children to carry on
I love the place we live in
I love the values it has
I hate the financial pressure
Of making decisions that are bad
So help me make a difference
Let's help change the world
Let's buy food that cares
For this fragile world
So this steak or bread you eat
Is from a special farm
One that wants you to feel
You are doing the environment no harm