Four Trees was a follow-up painting to the larger, ‘Seven Trees’, painted by the artist and currently on loan, with six other works, to the Uniting Church Synod Offices in Little Collins Street in Melbourne. A stand of large scarred pines along the southern boundary of Burwood Cemetery form a potent screen for the cemetery, its head stones and statuary beyond. It is an image that greets the artist on an approach to Highbury Road from a side street. Trees and memorial stones, including a robed figure with arms raised up, greet the bright sunlight, speaking of life rising out of death.

Collection of the Artist