Katrina Collins
Cycling
 
acrylic on canvas
100 x 100cm
 
Cycling along the Greenway heading west from the Iron Cove Bridge towards the Cooks River a myriad of colours and forms pass by. The smokey eucalyptus colours of the native trees and grasses, the cool deep green of the canal, red rooftops and picket fences and the brilliant blue of the sky merge to become slices of colour glimpsed as the bike picks up speed and hurtles along the winding paths. Through Hawthorne canal, across Marion Street, heading along to Parramatta Road the vertical rungs of the fence and swaying needles of the casuarina trees create a pattern of light and colour, abstracting form, concealing and revealing, resulting a brilliant array of forms and sensations echoed in my painting 'Cycling'.