Yvonne Mills-Stanley: Don't worry about the snakes.
Artists
To view Don’t worry about the snakes, showing on the ground floor gallery, is to take a walk with Yvonne, through the “lush green grass” of Mt. Glorious, down the other side of the mountain “to the open pastures” around the Somerset and Wivenhoe areas and beyond. Dreams and memories inform these ethereal works, which appear almost in motion, swaying and rustling in the mountain breeze, growing and changing colour through the seasons. Fields of grasses “standing over two metres high” on a neighbouring property are portrayed in a pair of landscapes entitled Bob’s Paddock – Mt. Glorious I & II . In the Spring Grass series individual blades punctuated by flickers of colour fill the canvas, while Don’t worry about the snakes I, II, III & IV explore contrasts between different skies and terrains, “soft undulating lands” and the grasses that grow over them.
