Here’s a little peek at a work Gracia and I have very recently finished. It was commissioned by a friend and delivered to it’s future home today. Given the nod of approval by it’s new owner, we celebrated with a visit to the NGV to see The cricket and the dragon: Animals in Asian Art and it was a delight.
From the catalogue... on the dragon
Hidden in the caverns of inaccessible mountains, or coiled in the unfathomed depth of the sea, he awaits the time when he slowly rouses himself into activity. He unfolds himself in the storm clouds; he washes his mane in the blackness of the seething whirlpools. His claws are in the fork of lightening, his scales begin to glisten in the bark of rain-swept pine trees. His voice is heard in the hurricane, which, scattering the withered leaves of the forest, quickens a new spring. Williams 1976, p. 132
Can you spot a Mediterranean monk seal? A male grysbok? A hunk of chalcopyrite?
Looking out for good things on the horizon.
Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison
Watercolour, pencil and collage on Fabriano Artistico HP 640gsm.
