While on the Brett Whitley Traveling Art Scholarship, I explored the Isle of Skye. Encountering volcanic mountains, coloured purplish red and bone white, with low spongy coral like plants and very little trees. They evoked for me the colour reactions of certain processes and pigments to a copper support. This period of time instilled a deep appreciation for this alien terrain which I am still processing through my work. I had three small pieces of copper on my person at the time, of which this is one. The title of this work references the area of Skye from which I began this painting named 'Sleat' but known as 'the garden of skye'.