From the Air Elsewherte series by Alex Stone in Auckland

This mesmerising work is of sheer delight to both viewer and to the artist Inspired by a poem written by Alex in Perth Western Australia the painting captures a joyous breeze carried from the outback as music in notation across a page It celebrates the mystic of other places and other worlds secrets stories unknown scents of otherness Structurally the background breaks up the picture frame with grey and black shapes like jetties which work in painterly direction from the outside inward Overlapping in places these shapes each have their own balance and intensity They act as a stage their internal coherent language supports harmoniously the wild and fluid interplay of the textured swirls that sweep with colour energy and curiosity across the surface of this deliberate background It is a masterful work where formal construction conjoined with lyrical line moves sense and meaning into poetic permutations beyond the logic of language