My Suburbia

Olivers Hill
circa 1980s

​I painted this artwork of Olivers Hill as a young girl. It was a gift for my mothers birthday and if you look down in the parking lot you can see her Orange VW parked near the beach. She still has this painting hanging in her home in Byron Bay. We lived up on the hill and this was our view. It doesn't surprise me that after living abroad for twenty years I would end up back on the Hill painting the exact same view. Like they say, "There is no place like home". I swore as a young girl I would never come back to dreary Mornington Peninsula, and now  I could not contemplate living anywhere else in this world. 
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The Peninsula is my suburbia, I grew up here, went to Frankston High School and spent my teenage years on the back beaches soaking up the surf culture.  Here I am again, painting my idea of suburbia, it may not look like yours but its what I see every day. There is no reason to go anywhere else to find inspiration, as it is right hear outside my back door.