Carboyd Ranges - Texas Hills, 1993

natural earth pigments on canvas

92 x 122 cm

Est. $20,000 – $30,000

Provenance: Commissioned from and purchased directly from the artist at her residence, Warmun Community, Turkey Creek, WA, 1993 Neil McLeod Fine Arts Studio, Vic Private Collection, Vic, acquired from the above Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Neil McLeod Fine Arts Studio
Artwork story: McKenzie was born at Texas Downs Station on the Ord River and worked as a cook on cattle stations in that country for almost forty years before settling at Warmun in 1973. The Carboyd Ranges near old Texas Downs is the country she never stopped mapping in paint. Neil McLeod OAM commissioned this work directly from her at her residence at Warmun in 1993, purchasing it in person during one of his regular field trips to the Kimberley. Carboyd Ranges — Texas Hills organises that country across three horizontal registers. In the upper field, a great dark form in near-black describes the escarpment of the ranges against a cool grey sky ground, two white branching trees standing within it. Below, a dense procession of pointed rock forms in deep burgundy, warm rose, pale mauve-grey, raw umber, and dusky pink fills the middle register, each outlined in white dot-work and packed tightly against its neighbours so that the negative spaces between them read as ravines and gorges. A third register of smaller, more varied forms continues the pattern at the base. The range of colour here speaks to sustained and intimate knowledge of the country in all its seasonal light.

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Sale 3 · Lot 27

c.1915 – 1998

natural earth pigments on canvas

92 x 122 cm

Est. $20,000 – $30,000

Provenance: Commissioned from and purchased directly from the artist at her residence, Warmun Community, Turkey Creek, WA, 1993 Neil McLeod Fine Arts Studio, Vic Private Collection, Vic, acquired from the above Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Neil McLeod Fine Arts Studio
Artwork story: McKenzie was born at Texas Downs Station on the Ord River and worked as a cook on cattle stations in that country for almost forty years before settling at Warmun in 1973. The Carboyd Ranges near old Texas Downs is the country she never stopped mapping in paint. Neil McLeod OAM commissioned this work directly from her at her residence at Warmun in 1993, purchasing it in person during one of his regular field trips to the Kimberley. Carboyd Ranges — Texas Hills organises that country across three horizontal registers. In the upper field, a great dark form in near-black describes the escarpment of the ranges against a cool grey sky ground, two white branching trees standing within it. Below, a dense procession of pointed rock forms in deep burgundy, warm rose, pale mauve-grey, raw umber, and dusky pink fills the middle register, each outlined in white dot-work and packed tightly against its neighbours so that the negative spaces between them read as ravines and gorges. A third register of smaller, more varied forms continues the pattern at the base. The range of colour here speaks to sustained and intimate knowledge of the country in all its seasonal light.