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Strong female with Australian wildlife, detailed pattern
Strong female with Australian wildlife, detailed pattern
Strong female with Australian wildlife, detailed pattern
Strong female with Australian wildlife, detailed pattern — artist's signature
Strong female with Australian wildlife, detailed pattern — edge view
Painting by Sharon England 33 Artworks Sold

North Head Warrior

Watercolour, Paper, Framed by Artist

80cm (W) x 100cm (H) x 2.5cm (D)

Certificate of Authenticity Included
A$2,530

Artwork Description

* Finalist in the Beautiful Bizarre International Art Prize 2021

Inspired by one of the amazing women in my life. I met the indomitable Miss Bates in an airport on the way to Harare 30 years ago. When we got there we jumped on to the back of a big orange truck and took off across Africa on the adventure of our lives. We stormed village markets in search of cheap treasures, stayed up all night playing mad drinking games on safari, watched a pink bellied hippo walk down the beach and into the ocean in Gabon and trooped across the Sahara Desert.

When we got back to Sydney years later she found her place and reigned supreme as the Queen of Newtown collecting a crazy troupe of musos, dreamers and vagabonds who would follow her from one end of town to the other. We would spend Friday nights swilling copius amounts of cheap beer and snogging questionable admirers – her resplendant in her dreadlocks, purple tie-dye and Doc Martens, me fresh in my corporate suit from my corporate job. I loved her so. And rarely see her now but think of her often – her courageous ninja spirit with all of her blackbelts. She lives at Manly and must surely be the Warrior at North Head.

Artist Bio
Photo of Sharon England
Sharon England 51 artworks | 13 Sold

CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ARTIST

Sharon is a visual artist from Sydney, best known for her stylised paintings of Australian Goddesses immersed in nature. Sharon grew up in suburban Sydney then travelled the world extensively where she developed a love of tribal markings and jewellery. Body decoration and self expression feature largely in her work. She returned to Australia to launch her magazine publishing business and later ran her own graphic design studio in North Sydney for 15 years. Sharon now works full-time as an artist from her studio in inner city Sydney.

Sharon's work has been bought by collectors in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Spain, England, France, Scotland, Qatar, The Netherlands, USA, Germany and Taiwan.