I know a lot people don't care for cricket. However for me it's the perfect game for summer - long languid spells with moments of action. I'm totally unfashionable as I really like test cricket. It's a bit like Shakespeare - it's long and you're not going to digest all of it, but nothing really compares.
As an artist I have found cricket to be a fascinating subject. The white uniforms take on purple and blue hues in the sun and the batsmen, bowlers, fielders and the umpires appear like actors on a green stage. The painting below shows a game being played on an oval in Adelaide's west parklands adjacent to the West Terrace cemetery.
This painting is titled 'The bowler returns to his mark' and will be part of the Good Sports exhibition that I will be presenting with Kate Bower at the Bapea Gallery in May 2015.
