Born in 1934, Elisabeth Cummings is one of Australia's greatest living painters, producing quintessential Australian landscapes as well as interiors and still life. In 1974 she moved to Wedderburn in Western Sydney, where her studio was surrounded by the Australian bush. 'She has always had a great drive to paint, a passion – she delights in the scrubbiness of the Australian bush.' As she said in an interview in 2005, "The bush always creeps into everything.' Sasha Grishin described Cummings' paintings as 'Beautifully structured, the brush work lyrical and expressive, but devoid of theatrical gestures, and the colour resonant with deep sonorous echoes. There are two things which distinguish her vision from that of many other Australian John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20052. Sasha Grishin, The Canberra Times, 30 November 2005...