This collection of works is based on a field trip to Yuin and Gundungurra lands on the eastern seaboard. The element of water in its various forms, is an ongoing theme in my work. It appears this time as rising fog at dawn, small, secluded grottos or vast, wild and dramatic waterfalls. 'Rêverie', derived from a Middle French word meaning ‘wild speech, delirium’, from rever ‘to roam’, is a related word for 'to daydream’. Landscape, as a genre, serves me as a vehicle to express a connection between the kinaesthetic, sensuous act of painting and 'being' in wild landscapes, drawing on the traditions of Western painting in my artistic process. While my subject is the landscape, and painting the vehicle of expression, my work is underpinned by my poetic, geographic, climatic, cultural and historical understanding of place. ​ Driving through this landscape, I began to feel an inexplicable nostalgia. It was only later, after creating these works, that I remembered an unchaperoned childhood walk in Ku-ring-gai bushland to Middle Harbour. My imaginative sister, absorbed in her stories, led the way. Each pool and landmark was given a name, making the experience feel like a dream. Familial history of place seems to draw me to these particular landscapes. My practice involves gathering imagery to record the landscape en plein air in watercolours and gouache, later developing more complex paintings on canvas in the studio. During a time of ‘sitting’ in the landscape natural events can happen, weather and light changes, and animal and bird life can reveal itself. For me, recording landscape is a way to bear witness to the Earth.