Date: Sat 16 Aug – Sat 13 Sept.
Wild places an exhibition of paintings by Maria Hitchcock provide vantage points to view the surrounding countryside and beyond.
The ever fading bluish outlines of the hills becoming the subject of countless tourist snaps but to the early explorers, a forbidding network of gullies and hidden valleys leading to the ultimate coastal plains.
It is this juxtaposition of that early terrifying concept of an unforgiving ‘bushland’ where man and animal could easily get lost for ever, to the welcoming National Parks of today with their established pathways and campgrounds that interests me.
Maria Hitchcock and her husband Don have lived in Armidale for 50 years. They have seen many changes but one thing that doesn’t change is the wild places in the region.
As avid bushwalkers Maria & Don roamed the National Parks admiring those unique landforms and flora that are so special and indicative of the ‘Australian Bush’.