'The Australian landscape has always held an extraordinary fascination for artists - from the earliest to the most recent indigenous art forms and the first colonial artist-explorers, continuing through to the moderns of the post-war era.
Through these artists, we have come to better understand the landscape, its vastness and its soul.
In reverence to these artists, the Sydney based - Western Australian painter Peter Francis Lawrence is also fascinated by the unconscious hold that the landscape has over him and the hearts and minds of the Australian people.
Peter's work is drawn towards sights where land meets the sea and to the textures and forms that inhabit the continent. In an attempt to better understand the multidimensional and strange imagery of Australia, he has produced work that mirrors the unique, rugged and yet pleasing character of our land.'
Tim Olsen 2000.
