Bronte Leighton-Dore A lightness of touch, a being with and feeling into space

I recently went on a painting trip to Mangrove Mountain on the NSW Central Coast. The property I visited backs onto a national park. Each morning I would take my paper and paints into the bush, where I would wander between the eucalypts and banksias and study the light to choose the ideal landscape to paint.

I believe we have to be quiet within ourselves to really see. This painting was a gentle meditation between myself and the subject, feeling into the space of the paper, absorbing the visual cues in front of me and the sensations of being in the landscape.

Bronte Leighton-Dore, 2021