DESCRIPTION
Acrylic Paint on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.
Original artwork by award winning and internationally exhibited artist Michael Wolfe.
183W x 92H cm ready to hang framed in a thin line Mountain Ash frame with a Walnut Stain and Danish Oil finish to suit your interior style.
Free Shipping Australia wide.
A bold and colourful statement piece from an artist who is passionate about our Australian landscape.
“The first thing you notice is the silence. Before the fires, Leanganook was a constantly moving soundscape, crackling with energy. Now the trees are stripped bare, twisted blackened sentinels, so the wind, while blowing, is eerily quiet, and for now the birds too are gone. Because although it is possible to stand in the devastation and see, feel and hear only absence, and be haunted by memories of that which is lost, yearn for it, the mountain is both more flawed yet more precious. And, the silence is loud, like everything is sharp and focussed, almost 3D so it’s hard to judge which direction a sound is coming from, everywhere, all at once.
Meanwhile, some seeds wait, and wait, for the breath of hell, the blackened ground, the carpet of ash; what looks like the death of a mountain is it also coming alive, bursting free. Chaos and order form an unruly partnership in another of irony: fire brings life. The epicormic pops of iridescent green shoots erupting from blackened trunks, pioneer plants galloping across gullies, tiny chocolate orchids revealed. What we are witnessing is nature’s great transforming energy, it’s moving, powerful, resonant. This is the engine of life at work, the endless cycle of creation.” MW July 2026
As a painter, printmaker and photographer Michael draws inspiration from the landscape around his home on Djaara country in Castlemaine, Victoria. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally and his work is included in public, corporate and private collections.
DESCRIPTION
Acrylic Paint on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.
Original artwork by award winning and internationally exhibited artist Michael Wolfe.
183W x 92H cm ready to hang framed in a thin line Mountain Ash frame with a Walnut Stain and Danish Oil finish to suit your interior style.
Free Shipping Australia wide.
A bold and colourful statement piece from an artist who is passionate about our Australian landscape.
“The first thing you notice is the silence. Before the fires, Leanganook was a constantly moving soundscape, crackling with energy. Now the trees are stripped bare, twisted blackened sentinels, so the wind, while blowing, is eerily quiet, and for now the birds too are gone. Because although it is possible to stand in the devastation and see, feel and hear only absence, and be haunted by memories of that which is lost, yearn for it, the mountain is both more flawed yet more precious. And, the silence is loud, like everything is sharp and focussed, almost 3D so it’s hard to judge which direction a sound is coming from, everywhere, all at once.
Meanwhile, some seeds wait, and wait, for the breath of hell, the blackened ground, the carpet of ash; what looks like the death of a mountain is it also coming alive, bursting free. Chaos and order form an unruly partnership in another of irony: fire brings life. The epicormic pops of iridescent green shoots erupting from blackened trunks, pioneer plants galloping across gullies, tiny chocolate orchids revealed. What we are witnessing is nature’s great transforming energy, it’s moving, powerful, resonant. This is the engine of life at work, the endless cycle of creation.” MW July 2026
As a painter, printmaker and photographer Michael draws inspiration from the landscape around his home on Djaara country in Castlemaine, Victoria. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally and his work is included in public, corporate and private collections.
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