Martin Gash is a landscape painter and educator and was born in India. The first twenty years of his life he lived in India, Sri Lanka, Aden, Ethiopia and the United Kingdom. He studied at Teesside College of Art, The Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and Whitelands College in London. Martin lectured in Art and Design in Australia and worked in outback New South Wales with the Kamilaroi Aboriginal Commun developing arts based community enterprises. Martin now divides his time between his home in Scotland and Bermagui on the New South Wales far South Coast. Statement:- Conveying the mood of a landscape is important. I suppose the challenge is not to be distracted by the conspicuous but to look at the uniqueness of a location. As a landscape painter it is the mood conveyed that I recall about any location. Perhaps the obscurity is intentional,…I am far more interested in suggestion and mystery than in literate interpretation. Landscape painting is an attempt to capture a ‘sense of place’, an elusive and fleeting moment. I guess that to a certain extent the various cultures that I have lived in have had an effect on my work. More recently a hint of an underlying topographical method of presenting landscape has crept in,…. perhaps subconscious reminiscences of my seven years working with the Kamilaroi Aboriginal Community. My chosen method of work is with water based mixed media,….initally I establish an open background comprising of multiple layers of home-made coloured gesso using