‘Lilac Glimpses (River Red Gum)’ deliberately intensifies the colours frequently found in South Australia’s river red gum trunks and branches, and the tiny forms and figures dancing over the entire canvas are suggested by the marks and patterns etched into the tree’s bark by nature. The artist can see 5 nude human forms and a host of animals. Can you find the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine in the centre, or the kangaroo and seahorse close to it? The koala and flying fox near the bottom of the painting? The 2 elephants, the rhino, the rabbit, the dingo and the dragon, the rosella peeping out of a crack in the trunk? Is that a pair of wolves just visible in the top right corner?