Queen & Creek Streets, 1930

This watercolor carries the viewer back to the corner of Queen and Creek Streets, Brisbane, in 1930. A bold, warm palette of maroon and gold gives the scene its energy, the colonnaded facade rising with quiet grandeur while trams, cars, and a lone horse-drawn cart share the road below in a small collision of eras. The brushwork lingers on the architecture, the columns, the arched windows, the ornate cornice line, without losing the sense of a street caught mid-motion. It is a painting less about stillness than about a city on the cusp of change, where the old world and the new one pass each other on the same stretch of road.