oil over synthetic polymer paint on
canvas
153 x 122 cm
signed lower right
collection: Metway Bank, Brisbane
"I painted this one at Kuranda [north Queensland]. I remember the Namale Plantation quite well, it’s just a rather small resort with a dozen or so bures where you stay ... one of the trips was to this river or creek, and waterfall, from where they get their water supply ... To get to it you have to walk quite a long distance up the gully of this creek, and it’s quite a dramatic view of this waterfall. You walk through a grove of rain-trees, which in Fiji grow to an enormous size. They just have a tremendous canopy and it’s rather like being in a forest in Europe and then all of a sudden you come across this waterfall. We stayed there quite a while, and it made quite an impression on me, because I went back and took some studies, and took a Fijian with me and got him to sit around ... I think after that I went looking for other waterfalls in Fiji, but the others were very disappointing."
Ray Crooke, 1997