Margaret Saul Gallery |
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TWINNING GUINEA FLOWER (Hibbertia scandens.) |
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The artwork inspired by this hardy little Australian native (also called Snake Vine) that lives as a “fringe dweller” of rainforests and moist woodlands has been a work in progress since 1981 when I made a watercolour sketch of this particular plant in Lamington National Park (S.E. Queensland). Little adjustment was made to the action of this particular plant with its intertwining sinuous, reddish stems suggesting a Celtic knot decorated with delicate yellow flowers, and carefully balanced by its surrounding arrangement of slightly hairy leaves. All this is possibly what beckoned me in the first instance (over 20 years ago) to sit down and draw it at the margins of the rainforest. My first finished composition was originally created in fine ink line as one in a series of “hand-coloured lithographs” but then interested in taking it further I completed this traditional watercolour portrait in May 2003 – finally bringing closure to this enduring encounter. Image area: 27.5x27.5 cm (11"x11") Watercolor and color pencil on Fabriano Uno watercolor paper. This painting is in the artist's collection |
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