The Joy of Flight
2016
Acrylic on canvas
95 cm
x
145 cm
Signed lower right
At this time of year the swallows
return to their nests in our big open barn outside my studio door, they fly in
and out all day swirling around in the most graceful way, little flashes of
blue and orange. I often wonder about these little beauties and how they make
the incredible journey from Far North Queensland, PNG and Indonesia all the way
to the southern half of Australia. They really earn their name “Welcome
Swallow” because their arrival heralds the change of season from winter to
spring.
A very large hare has taken up
residence around my studio and in the nearby pine forest that our drive way
cuts through to the front gate, the forest side of the drive is about 2 meters
higher than the paddock side of our drive. One sunny morning in early spring
when the air was full of welcome swallows wheeling about, I was slowly driving
up our drive way with my 9 year old daughter in the car when the hare leapt
from the forest embankment and sailed through the air with the swallows, it was
an astounding moment, I knew there and then I had to paint it.
I recast the vision at an airport
just for my own and hopefully the viewers amusement, although I hate flying I
actually love airports they are a visual feasts, and I love all the signage,
ground marking, trucks, tugs, planes and best of all people in fluoro vests.
It’s a graphic dream come true and one that I have revisited over the past
decade or so. GT
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