Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

The portrait series of the Wet Tropics focussed on people that were ethnically different to each other. I started with an Aboriginal woman, a Sikh man and a Papuan New Guinea woman. It was not until I finished my university studies in anthropology, archaeology and environmental science that I changed tack from portraying ethnically diverse looking subjects to conservation ecologists. Unbeknown to me at the time I painted this self-portrait, I would become one of the conservation ecologists. I am of an English/Polish background and 5th generation Australian. The title is self-explanatory; the room and objects in it, including the ridgeback Ebony, were some of my favourite things.