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Michael Macbeth
Settling the dust
Oil on canvass
This painting depicts an Australian historical scene during the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs 1991 weekend camp. During a bushdance people were swallowed by bulldust which was extinguished with billies of water ferried up from Neurum Creek while others kept dancing. I wrote a poem about the event in the October edition of the Brisbane Bushwalking Magazine which is now preserved for future prosperity in the National Library of Australia.
Bushdance at Neurum Creek (extract)
…The dust named bull settled in eyes and hair
While everyone just kept dancing as though they had flair
People yar-hooing and carrying on
But clearly they couldn’t go on and on
Don’t stop, don’t stop, cried out a-hoy
Keep going, keep going, we’ve got a ploy
Then a line of buckets came from Neurum Creek
Splashed down between people's feet….
Then dust clouds slowly slid into the creek
As bushwalkers kept going stomping their feet.
Size: 80 × 65 cm
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About Michael Macbeth
My first art award as a Junior Champion, was in 1970. The Judge, Mrs Bradley, encouraged me to take lessons in oils and within a couple of years I was teaching my own art classes in her art studio. I was also privileged to be invited by James Holmyard to his studio to watch and learn from him as he painted. Since then, I have always enjoyed expressing myself through my oil paintings with the emotional connection I have through my work. My passion has always been Australian landscape painting which I continue to do so to this day.
