THE GUMLEAF COLLECTION: Beyond the Great Divide (2025)

‘Beyond the Great Divide’, which forms part of The Gumleaf Collection, showcases images west of the Great Dividing Range in NSW. They were painted for an exhibition in the Blue Mountains, at the lovely Village Kitchen in Kurrajong.

As is the case with the entire collection, each small painting combines two iconic Aussie images. First, the gumleaf, and within the gumleaf is something uniquely Australian, be it an eye-catching dwelling, a railway station, or maybe a church ...

There are more completed gumleaves than you will see here, so if there’s somewhere in particular you’re interested in, let me know. If I haven’t already done it, I might be able to paint it for you.

Unless noted otherwise, the paintings below are available for purchase. Please drop me an email.

‘PERFICK’, BILPIN, NSW

Length of gumleaf: approx. 22 cm

ALONG THE FORBES ROAD, OUT OF ORANGE, NSW

Length of gumleaf: approx. 22 cm

BOTTOM POINTS, ZIG ZAG RAILWAY, LITHGOW, NSW

Length of gumleaf: approx. 22 cm

ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, HILL END, NSW

Length of gumleaf: approx. 22 cm

CELLAR DOOR, PHILIP SHAW WINES, ORANGE, NSW

Length of gumleaf: approx. 22 cm

OBERON STATION, NSW

Length of gumleaf: approx. 22 cm

NINA PAINE and KANAK KIRAN, with Shane from the village kitchen

Having just hung our exhibition.