Babette Robertson
We are watching the trees in the old campsite at night, as if we are spectators of a film. Then someone pulls out a painting I did and asks what it is. It’s dark with super bright lights in the sky. Like the northern lights – but also artificial. There are some fields in the foreground of the painting but when we look at them they disappear and are replaced by the same eucalyptus trees we are looking at in the campsite. The painting is supposed to be a bushfire but no one believes me,
2026

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We are watching the trees in the old campsite at night, as if we are spectators of a film. Then someone pulls out a painting I did and asks what it is. It’s dark with super bright lights in the sky. Like the northern lights – but also artificial. There are some fields in the foreground of the painting but when we look at them they disappear and are replaced by the same eucalyptus trees we are looking at in the campsite. The painting is supposed to be a bushfire but no one believes me,

Year

2026

Medium

water-based pigment and oil on linen

Dimensions

130 x 162 x 2.5 cm

ID

#41905

Price

$9,200

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