River Home
- Landscape
- Archival reproduction print on A4 Canson Rag Photographique 210g/m2 Fine Art Paper.
- 29.7 x 21 cms (11.69 x 8.27 ins)
- Ref: 735894
$ 45.00
This picture of river life imagined, as a Platypus dives, is a reproduction of an original painting, created in earth pigments, charcoal and gouache on Arches watercolour paper.
It is inspired by a walk along the Yarrowee, which runs through Ballarat. This iconic amphibious creature has fought, with the help of concerned people, for its future in our waterways.
I have painted it slipping down through soft waters into bending weed, seeking something to subsist upon. As I worked, I wondered about what ran down into the river to cloud its senses; about, as its years swam by, what growing things disappeared,or choked the river banks; about when parts of the river were rerouted or diappeared - what could it have known of the dangers looming over its beautiful world?