Landscapes Revisited (6x6 Negs)

I have been scanning and reviewing some 6 x 6 B&W negatives from way back... as always there are mixed feelings when revisiting something you did a long time ago and given these images were made in 1985 and 1986, we are talking some time ago.

Having visited the Fred Williams exhibition at the Ian Potter Gallery at Federation Square recently, I was reminded of the complex compositional elements and spacial relationships Williams developed and refined... for me it was Williams who 'made sense' of the complex Australian bush landscape (in the majority of cases the bush doesn't have any of the classic formal or tonal relationships that European landscape is endowed with) and redefined Australian Landscape in visual form. As a painter, Williams explored complex and illusory spaces and often employed relationships of scale that indicated and combined both arial and 'macro' views in the same canvas... a very wonderful thing to observe.

Maybe with this in mind I was attracted again to this work made so long ago, because I can remember 'wrestling' with trying to translate the chaos and randomness of some typical Australian bush areas, and the following are some examples that were made in the Chewton area...