Kate Stevens

Afternoon Scene, 2023

45 × 130 cm oil on canvas

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In the lead up to the Black Summer bushfires the hills and paddocks around the town of Braidwood were parched, and vibrant greens reduced to straw yellow and dust. Driving home from Canberra in the late afternoon light, I remember the beauty of the long purple shadows, and the sense slowly forming of what was to come.