‘The Leap’ is an outcrop on mountains just north of Mackay, north Queensland. It was near here that I finished my schooling and began my full-time working life. The name arose from tragic circumstances. In the early settlement days an Indigenous woman leap from the the outcrop to her death with her baby in her arms. She obviously saw this as abetter alternative than being entrapped by her settler pursuers. This was painted from my memory years later.
I have exaggerated the clearing of the rainforest to represent the impact European settlement had on the human and natural environment.
