About this work
The leafy street is typical of the garden suburb of Turramurra on the North Shore of Sydney, where the artist lived most of her life. In this work Grace Cossington Smith uses one of her favourite compositional devices, a straight path or road that begins at the bottom edge and runs up the canvas to disappear over a rise. The viewer looks up between a cathedral-like frame of tree trunks on the left, branches overhead and solid hedges on the right. For Cossington Smith, a devout Anglican Christian, the spiritual dimension to life was the ultimate meaning behind her art.