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Watercolour on paper

Signed on the front.

This artwork comes with an external frame

A scene with a hint of the 'fringe dweller' about it. I captured these houseboats sitting on mud while working directly on location at a nearby picnic table during a visit to North Stradbroke Island. The sense of going with the flow, quite literally with the rising and falling tide, made me ponder about the way submitting to the patterns of nature can allow for a more free existence. Conversely though, nature would be your new master, setting the conditions of your existence and leaving you at it's mercy.

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Plein air watercolour on 300gsm Arches cold pressed paper

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This artwork is currently framed.

It comes with an external frame.

Framed dimensions - 40.0(W) x 50.0(H).

Artwork dimensions - 29.0(W) x 39.0(H).

All art by Julie Purcell

An arid meadow dotted with native Australian black pines bakes in the midday sun in this contemporary watercolour made en plein air. This image of a home-made vehical - a bush buggy was painted en plein air by the artist. This means she painted it while on location not in a studio. This method grants the work a lively and loose look that encapsulates the fun of exploring the Australian bush in a DIY vehical. The Buggy was made by the artist's father and looks like something out of the Mad Max movie franchise. The artist has used desaturated hues including beige, peach and khaki to capture the dry bush setting while the buggy has a hint of camo pattern showing on it's tubular steel form.A watercolour painting made in a modern style captures the tonal contrast between deeply shaded foliage and glimpses of the sparkling ocean and beach beyond. The artist made the painting while on location in a method referred to as 'en plein air'. This method grants the painting a fresh and expressive look that suits the subject of a hidden bush track that overlooks an epic surf beach on North Stradbroke Island. Many greens and browns dominate the foreground depicting various types of trees and plants growing in a dense tract of bushland atop Adder Rock, the artist rested here after painting other pieces on location in the area. She was inspired by the unusual sensation of dark foreground and light background and sought to show patches of luminous sand and water through gaps in the greenery.A watercolour painting made in a modern style captures the vastness of a surf beach on North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. The artist made the painting while on location in a method referred to as 'en plein air'. This method grants the painting a fresh and expressive look that suits the subject of wild weather rolling in from the sea. The beach is a beige expanse with lavender shadows falling across it from the large thunderheads above. The wind swept form of a dark skeletal tree in the foreground hints at the danger posed by weather on the island and is formally linked, via shared tonal value, to the mass of stone the artist has depicted in the foreground. This stone implies that she was sitting atop the rock formation as she worked on the piece.
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