A Wise Old Owl Once Said All You Need Is Love!

This piece started as a piece for a local queer arts fest and it's aim was to promote 'Love is Love', as I genuinely believe love has no gender. Now the painting is finished I see it in two ways, I don't identify the owl as either him or her, the owl just is.

The owl looks eldery, wise to the world, like it has been knocked down many times in it's life, but still even with weary eyes wears it's heart on it's chest with pride, I am who I am and I am proud of it.

Then when I look at it the way I have painted the headdress it reminds me of an old gypsy fortune teller, with a message to give "All you need is love".

Painted with mixed media, this piece is quite heavily textured, painted on stretched boxed canvas with black painted sides, signed and ready to hang.

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I am an artist based in Wollongong, NSW, I grew up here between the mountains and the sea. My passion lies in painting with bright and bold colours, Australian native animals, especially birds make up a lot of my inspiration, though I also like to explore flora and still life subjects. I like to accentuate the hints of colour I see within my subject matter. I love painting with a palette knife and I use mainly acrylic paints on stetched canvas.

I love to add texture to the canvas with deliberate strokes that give the subject matter definition without it always being obvious. I am a full time artist working from my home studio on the South Coast. I find great inspiration from daily beach and bush walks and I can't imagine a life where I was not able to be creative everyday, and I feel truley blessed to be on this journey.