Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed certificate of authenticity.

This artwork comes with an external frame

'The Custodian' is a portrait of Anne Davie, a renowned Phillip Island identity who was awarded an OAM for her service to the Gippsland community - including her support for the arts.  I first met Anne when she attended a creative writing class I was teaching in Cowes, Phillip Island in the 1980s.  I have since worked with her on various local committees.  We were both thrilled when the painting was chosen as a finalist in the  Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2017 and we both attended the opening at the S H Ervin Gallery in Sydney.  The portrait later won the Best Portrait award at an Artists Society of Phillip Island Exhibition.

I have attempted to show the subject's determination and custodial role by placing her overseeing the landscape - the historical Cowes jetty. The painting is acrylic on canvas and is framed in natural wood.