Biography

I grew up in ‘Dunmoochin’, an artist’s enclave on the outskirts of  Melbourne. After living in St.Kilda for many years I am now back in the bush, on the outskirts of Castlemaine.

I have spent a lot of my time roaming around Australia, painting, drawing, looking and wondering. I have come to realise Australia is very old, very dry and very flat. This place of ours has been worn away over millions of years. Etched and carved and shaped by countless floods till it resembles a vast canvas, painted by the weather.

Because of this, I find myself painting more and more from a bird’s eye view, much as aboriginal people do. The only way to really see such a flat landscape.
Water, and the landscape it has created over millennia is my primary fascination.

Ben Laycock 2010

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The Ninth Elegy

Earth, isn’t this
what you want:
rising up
inside us invisibly
once more?
Isn’t it your dream
to be invisible someday?
Earth! invisible!
what is it
you urgently ask for
if not transformation?
Earth, my love
I will do it.

– Rainer Maria- Rilke