Abstract: People create and construct place intellectually, intuitively and based on experience. One’s sense of place is manifested in thoughts, feelings, actions and at times visual representations of places. Whilst some disciplines analyse paintings and photographs and how they represent different landscapes, very little has been written on how planners have used or could use a range of creative media to represent sense of place. Using a rural case study near Cowra NSW, a property historically known as Riverslea, framed within a larger research project entitled Layers, Lenses and Landscapes, artists and planners were asked to respond to the same site and their own sense of that place using a creative medium of their choice. This paper briefly describes the overall research project and documents the process and the actual representations created to capture the artists’ sense of place using different media (painting, photography, creative installations (sculptures and objects), storytelling (multimedia video and interviews), and soundscapes. Discourse analysis provides a way of understanding relationships between seemingly disparate ways of knowing a place and allows an exploration of understanding place which traditionally may have dismissed as too vernacular or whimsical for serious consideration. This research challenges the traditional ways by which planners attempt to document place and peoples’ sense of place.