Highway Hypnosis 2026

 highway hypnosis describes the peculiar feeling that overtakes me when I paint,

a state of not being in control,

that feeling of driving home and arriving without recalling how i got there.

it is work that seems to have emerged through me, rather than from me

in this case, it is memories of being on a residency in Bermagui on the south coast of NSW, spending hours alone near the ocean, the open skies, the birds, the sounds

I couldn’t make a literal depiction of this place even if I tried. somehow the memory and feelings I have about this experience made itself known while I held the brush.

Space in Between, 1/8a Hughes Street, Potts Point