“I approach the Australian Bush at face value, and from inside it. There’s no hidden meaning to my work. It is the Australian Bush.”

This is how Andrew Pye surmised much of his landscape art in recent years. But as 2020 was ushered in, Pye was painting with usual prolific energy “rain, hail or shine” through a bushfire affected North East Victorian summer of “bloody hot ‘n’ hazy” proportions. We have seen from this the first pictures of his interesting…