These canvases were painted in 2010 while I was artist in residence at the Whanganui Awa School at Rānana. Travelling down the River Road I was feeling particularly barren as an artist. As it happened, however, this was just after persistent heavy rain had fallen which resulted in a continually changing landscape – gushing waterfalls emerged from places where there had been none, and debris, mud and numerous slips scarred the body of the land. A landscape that had prevailed across time also revealed its fragility when confronted with the ravages of nature.