GRAVITAS by Karen Farmer

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The Australian magpie is an icon . The call of a magpie can signal the feeling of home, and to have them around is considered good luck.
My Badmagpie series is an attempt to highlight the value of these treasured natives who are part of our Aussie scenery and synonymous with the Australian landscape.
This painting, on a GIVE WAY sign titled GRAVITAS (seriousness and importance of manner, causing feelings of respect and trust in others) seeks to relay a mutual respect between us and these feathered beauties.
The retired street sign is a nod to our urban environment and the adaptability of the magpie. Please note, the street sign has been previously in use and has signs of its history, a few marks and a patina that relays its time in the street.

The Australian magpie is an icon . The call of a magpie can signal the feeling of home, and to have them around is considered good luck.
My Badmagpie series is an attempt to highlight the value of these treasured natives who are part of our Aussie scenery and synonymous with the Australian landscape.
This painting, on a GIVE WAY sign titled GRAVITAS (seriousness and importance of manner, causing feelings of respect and trust in others) seeks to relay a mutual respect between us and these feathered beauties.
The retired street sign is a nod to our urban environment and the adaptability of the magpie. Please note, the street sign has been previously in use and has signs of its history, a few marks and a patina that relays its time in the street.

The Australian magpie is an icon . The call of a magpie can signal the feeling of home, and to have them around is considered good luck.
My Badmagpie series is an attempt to highlight the value of these treasured natives who are part of our Aussie scenery and synonymous with the Australian landscape.
This painting, on a GIVE WAY sign titled GRAVITAS (seriousness and importance of manner, causing feelings of respect and trust in others) seeks to relay a mutual respect between us and these feathered beauties.
The retired street sign is a nod to our urban environment and the adaptability of the magpie. Please note, the street sign has been previously in use and has signs of its history, a few marks and a patina that relays its time in the street.

The Australian magpie is an icon . The call of a magpie can signal the feeling of home, and to have them around is considered good luck.
My Badmagpie series is an attempt to highlight the value of these treasured natives who are part of our Aussie scenery and synonymous with the Australian landscape.
This painting, on a GIVE WAY sign titled GRAVITAS (seriousness and importance of manner, causing feelings of respect and trust in others) seeks to relay a mutual respect between us and these feathered beauties.
The retired street sign is a nod to our urban environment and the adaptability of the magpie. Please note, the street sign has been previously in use and has signs of its history, a few marks and a patina that relays its time in the street.

The Australian magpie is an icon . The call of a magpie can signal the feeling of home, and to have them around is considered good luck.
My Badmagpie series is an attempt to highlight the value of these treasured natives who are part of our Aussie scenery and synonymous with the Australian landscape.
This painting, on a GIVE WAY sign titled GRAVITAS (seriousness and importance of manner, causing feelings of respect and trust in others) seeks to relay a mutual respect between us and these feathered beauties.
The retired street sign is a nod to our urban environment and the adaptability of the magpie. Please note, the street sign has been previously in use and has signs of its history, a few marks and a patina that relays its time in the street.

The Australian magpie is an icon . The call of a magpie can signal the feeling of home, and to have them around is considered good luck.
My Badmagpie series is an attempt to highlight the value of these treasured natives who are part of our Aussie scenery and synonymous with the Australian landscape.
This painting, on a GIVE WAY sign titled GRAVITAS (seriousness and importance of manner, causing feelings of respect and trust in others) seeks to relay a mutual respect between us and these feathered beauties.
The retired street sign is a nod to our urban environment and the adaptability of the magpie. Please note, the street sign has been previously in use and has signs of its history, a few marks and a patina that relays its time in the street.

Karen Farmer
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Acrylic on metal

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The Australian magpie has adapted to lives with us in our urban environments. They are jolly, quirky mischievous rascals but also lovable and friendly if you are considered one of the good humans.
They are a joy to experience and if we respect and give them the space to be themselves we will be enriched by having them in our lives.

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Acrylic paint on retired metal street sign

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Karen Farmer
135 artworks

Sydney, Australia

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Australian landscape. The laneway and backstreet that is often only visited by locals. Our urban identity chosen for its quintessential Australian identity.

. The traditional magpie poem states that seeing two magpies means joy, perhaps because they have found their one and only, partner in crime and forever partner. From my Badmagpie series

Beautiful resilient Australian iconic magpie who are an integral part of our urban landscape. The pair are symbolic of partnership because not only do they choose a partner for life, and remain loyal always, but the partnership that we have with our incredible and resilient native birds who life and share their home turf with us.

The iconic and much loved Australian magpie is my muse. I paint them onto retired street signs in a nod to their ability to adapt to the urban environment and human made landscape. The texture created on the sign that surrounds the Maggie’s is symbolic of the texture they bring to us, or liveliness that we experience by having such special birds live amongst us.

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