As a parent we raise our offspring and send them out into the world - here the rough and tumble of life is represented by the crashing of the waves of the ocean - a young boy contemplates working up the courage needed to brave the ocean. Penguin Random House Australia approached me with a request to use 3 of my paintings for the second editions of Tim Winton’s non fiction titles, The Boy Behind the Curtain (this), Island Home and Land’s Edge.