Bushfire 1976

  

gouache 57.0 x 54.0 cm

    
      Despite a personal crisis in the 1970s (the Barret Malt Factory in Richmond, where Williams stored a large number of his major works, burnt down, irreparably damaging many paintings) these years were prolific for Williams. During this period he worked with a greater richness and emotional depth than ever before. Here we see an aerial perspective on the distinctly Australian phenomenon of the bushfire: viewed from above at an immense distance it resembles less a bushfire than a multi-coloured snake looped against an ominous black background.    
             

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