Canvas board
Signed on the front.
Frame not included
‘WHO doesn’t love a Willie Wagtail? That ubiquitous chatterbox, that neighbourhood gossip, that social butterfly flicking his tail feathers from side-to-side in fantastic flirtation.’ Claire Dunn
It’s hard to believe that I painted this only a year or so ago in Australia. Now, just out of lockdown in France, the surroundings here are very different. This little abstraction was painted plein air from life in the Aussie outdoors, and depicts a small bird launching itself off the tree branches into flight. I don’t know the correct Latin nomenclature for the bird, but when we were kids at school, we used to call them Willy Wagtails, so that is good enough for me. It was a very hot day when I painted it, and I took my bluetooth speaker with me to play some music, as I had been told that two very poisonous snakes (an Australian Brown and a Tiger – both have enough venom in one bite to kill several of me!) had been sighted in the campsite nearby, and that noise keeps them at bay. Personally, I have never found Vivaldi and Bach to be intimidating, but they sure did the job with ‘dem snakes!