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this work was inspired by the minute and complex forms of plankton and microscopic life. I dreamed of an image of all this lush form regeneration from the leaf skeletons I see on my walks in the bush near my home

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Acrylic on canvas

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Tags#nature, # colour, # fantasy

All art by jane parker

In his book Researches Into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization, the turn-of-the-20th-century anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor writes that the world turtle concept likely first appeared in Hindu mythology. In one Vedic story, the form of the god Vishnu’s second avatar, Kurma, is a great turtle, which provides a celestial foundation upon which a mountain is balanced.  This image fascinated me and I created this painting with the turtle carrying a world in the sea above the ruins of past civilisations swirled with images of coral, fish and the wate. The viewer will be able to explore the many ideas in this workgleaming rainbow coloured heron flying from a lake
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