Uprooted

A love of painting and stories of Australia’s early colonial history is what drives me to create. Ceramics being my canvas for the past forty five years. A challenging medium, full of surprise elements! It’s physical beauty, it’s painterly playfulness, it’s technical challenges, it’s a medium that holds a fascination, mystery and preciousness for me. Painting is my language for learning, communicating and storytelling. In my painting ‘Uprooted we see a mighty Glover bound for Van Diemen’s Land aboard the Thomas Laurie with wife Sarah, and assistant Thomas Eley. His other precious cargo, the golden medal, the especially styled paint brushes, and colleagues paintings. Glover, having left behind a fashionable and settled life in London, as well as daughters Mary and Emma. But there to greet him in lutruwita, are sons James, William and Henry. The arrival date being 18th February, 1831. his 64th birthday. With the family ‘Uprooted’, did Glover perhaps think to ask Sarah, that pending question…” Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m sixty four?”