Provenance:
Collection of the artist's friend Private Collection, Hawkes Bay by descent from above collection, mid 1990s by current owner Illustrated:
p. 165 Dorrit Black: Unseen Forces, Tracey Lock-Weir Art Gallery of South Australia, 2014

This work is the second in a series of four linocuts Dorrit Black produced from her Air Travel series.

The Air Travel series shows Black's emotional response to the land. Inspired by an aircraft trip to North Queensland soon after the Second World War, she records the contrasting organic and ordered formations of the natural world vividly apparent from the air: two depict pristine landforms.

(free-form coastal mud flats and mountain ranges), and two are ordered agricultural landscapes (man- made palm and pineapple plantations). Dorrit initially studied printmaking under Claude Flight at London's Grosvenor School of Art, alongside fellow print-maker Ethel Spowers. By the late 1940's, however Dorrit had developed her own experimental technique, using a mixture of rolled colour and brushed on, rather like the Japanese, but against the advice of Flight.