*welcome to
michael wolfe studio

painter I photographer I printmaker I
made in djaara I castlemaine

gallery + studio open by appointment

harcourt fires fundraiser
leanganook friday 9 january…. sold for $6000!
huge thanks to everyone for their bids and especially
Paula for your incredible generosity.
proceeds to Harcourt Progress Association

I was in the studio on Friday afternoon, it was a stinker, 42º and a foul northerly blowing hard, a tempest randomly shifting course, the perfect storm, a recipe for disaster. The fire got out of Fogartys Gap north of Harcourt, jumped the highway and raced across the valley, whipping across grassy paddocks, through orchards, taking houses here, leaving sheds there. Stealing livelihoods, farms, stock - random, vicious, destructive. It got into town and it’s still in the forest on Leanganook, sacred La Larr Ba Gauwa – stones and mountain – she’s my muse, mother, companion, inspiration.

When the power went out at home I kept painting in the gloom and falling darkness, it was the least I could do, to bear witness, capture the moment. This is the painting – Leanganook Friday 9 January 2026, 152x122cm acrylic on canvas framed in mountain ash.

I’m donating this Leanganook painting to benefit those who’ve lost so much in the Harcourt fires.

🖤 Email me with an offer to bid on this piece. All proceeds will be donated. Includes delivery anywhere in Australia.

Thanks, Michael