Robert Wengritzky, Winter’s Palette (LANDSCAPE 2025)

This entry is a study of my favourite tree — the snow gum which is uniquely adapted to Australia’s alpine environment. In winter, its bark becomes a canvas of shifting colour, peeling back in bands of red, ochre, olive, and cream. Against the silence of snow, these living sculptures stand as both fragile and enduring. The series moves from intimate detail to forest-wide perspective: the glossy sweep of bark, the tangled rhythm of trunks, the canopy burdened with snow, and the elegant curve of a single tree against the frozen ground. Each frame is a meditation on contrast — warmth and cold, colour and monotone, permanence and change. Together, the images reveal the snow gum in all of it's uniqueness to the Australian Alps

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