The Second Bird Cage on the Rabbit fence

This work in acrylic is painted entirely from memory after a bushwalk in along the Rabbit fence on the Qld - NSW border. It is a long rough walk without a clearly defined track so it is all the more astonishing to come across the remains of a hut in the middle of the rain forest. Once it was probably cleared around here and someone decorated the edges of the track with rocks. Now it is the home to bats and crows nest ferns grow from the roof. Inside there are still pots and pans, an old pack saddle and a stretcher bed. A strange place now .. nature taking over now that man has left off. My method when painting from memory is to pile detail upon detail until I have recreated the feeling of the place - the ferns, bats, lizards,the general decay , the rusty iron. Once this was temporary home to the men who built and maintained the fence.