Bob Finlayson loved the New South Wales coast just south of Sydney and lived there from the early to mid 1970s, first at Stanwell Park then at Coacliff, a former mining village between the sea and the Illawarra escarpment. This beautiful abstract landscape was exhibited in 1994 and 2002 and is one of various escarpment-linked works, some straight landscapes and others abstract and metaphorical to a greater or lesser degree. Examples on this website include Escarpment 2: programmed to sustain life from the same period as this, as well as much later works like Escarpment: mist.

There are quite a few paintings from the early to mid 1970s in a similar style to this - done mostly in acrylics and using large dots/splotches, washes and drips, some wholly abstract and others linked with landscape, for example In the pink and "God in sunglasses".