Date: Sat 16 Aug – Sat 13 Sept.
Wild places provide vantage points to view the surrounding countryside and beyond.
The ever fading bluish outlines of the hills becoming the subject of countless tourist snaps but to the early explorers, a forbidding network of gullies and hidden valleys leading to the ultimate coastal plains.
It is this juxtaposition of that early terrifying concept of an unforgiving ‘bushland’ where man and animal could easily get lost for ever, to the welcoming National Parks of today with their established pathways and campgrounds that interests me.
Maria Hitchcock and her husband Don have lived in Armidale for 50 years. They have seen many changes but one thing that doesn’t change is the wild places in the region.
As avid bushwalkers Maria & Don roamed the National Parks admiring those unique landforms and flora that are so special and indicative of the ‘Australian Bush’.
This landscape that was so terrifying to our early British colonial settlers but a natural home to First Nations people who traversed the hills and creeks in the pursuit of game to take home to their family groups.
In this exhibition I hope to capture the timelessness of these wild places.
Maria Hitchcock OAM
Maria Hitchcock - Woolpack Rocks - acrylic on canvas 
Maria Hitchcock - Weeping Rock - acrylic on canvas 
Maria Hitchcock - Mount Norman 3- acrylic on canvas 
Maria Hitchcock - Mystery Face - acrylic on canvas 
Maria Hitchcock - Mount Norman 2 - acrylic on canvas Maria Hitchcock - Mount Norman 1 - acrylic on canvas Maria Hitchcock - Dangar Falls - acrylic on canvas 
Maria Hitchcock - Gibraltar Range - acrylic on canvas 
Maria Hitchcock - Cathedral Rocks Track- acrylic on canvas Maria Hitchcock - Cathedral Rocks Opening- acrylic on canvas
