Mixed Media on wood, ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

This is my second work on paper while in Bali, living in a remote village. The work is mounted professionally on a thick high quality deep edged wooden panel.
This painting is much influenced by the torrential unseasonal rain we had days on end, everything was so wet and stayed wet and of course the paint did dry very slowly. But the sun came out again and the air cleaned up from the burning smoke and people felt better you could see it from the way they walked, look and greeted us.
I started feeling a bit of eco anxiety again about what is happening everywhere with so many extremes so this all has influenced this small work. A local painter who sits and paints in the rice fields made some bamboo painting brushes for me, so very kind and I’ve tried them out in this work too. Good for scraping back into the paint and making fine lines as he does. Love this limited color palette I mixed with the few colors I had at hand.
The women were again back in the rice fields doing the heavy work even during the rain they work with thin plastic capes on. The men watch and then bring the heavy sacks filled with rice home on their motorbikes. The women do seem to be very happy and take breaks near the little huts or trees.
I discovered this lovely Indonesian singer Yura Yunita who actually made me feel very emotional being here in this lovely area with her gorgeous song which suited this work as if it was made for it, ‘Jalang pulang’.
The paper is mounted on a very heavy thick beautiful wooden artist panel which looks great on your wall. Additionally it still can be framed as shown in one of the display pictures but is not included in the price. Comes varnished and signed with a certificate of authenticity.