Imants tillers did his painting Monaro when he moved to cooma from Sydney in the Monaro district in 1996. The painting is an extension of the ‘diaspora’ series which began in 1992, which refers to movement or moving of people from a similar background culture common reason being war or colonisation of a society. After moving from a city to a peaceful town he began to think the significance of landscape layered images and texts. He was fascinated by the dry, treeless slopes of Monaro. And appreciated how Monaro’s climate has resemblance to that of Europe’s but is still part of the Australian bush. Tillers was born to Latvian migrated parents has always found himself confused between his native land and his Indo-European culture of his ancestors.
