Ray Firth

I was raised on the dry western plains, beyond the coastal ranges. My country is, to the passing traveller, uneventful and tedious.

But it is mine, indelible and insoluble; a part of me like my breath.

That stamp has determined my joy in the landscape.

My painting springs from what I know best, but that passion informs all of the work that I produce.

It is the arbiter and the teacher, the hostile and generous benefactor.