Brett Piva's love for the Murrumbidgee drives new artwork

Brett Piva with a work called Elongated cast lines after the Willbriggie deluge in his exhibit, Epitomes Shared from a V Bottom Tinnie. Pictures by Simone De Peak

Brett Piva remembers the awakening, the moment that eventually drove him to bring an end to his successful custom signwriting business and focus full-time on a new direction in making art.

It was about eight years ago, and he had gone for visit to his childhood home territory of Yenda, in western NSW.