Waiting For The Mangoes to Ripen

For the first time ever, my mango tree produced fruit. So much fruit in fact that I spent a happy summer picking the green mangoes and waiting for them to ripen. It was possibly the happiest time of my life (well, garden wise). They were the best mangoes - Kensington Pride, and I ate them all over a sumptuous 2 week period in March 2024. Anyway, here is the record of that anticipatory time...

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Tanya Lake is a multi award winning photographer turned painter, based in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, with her first exhibition in 2019.

With a practice that includes weekly landscape Plein Air sessions, along with live model sketching, she is passionate about storytelling through art & creative expression with the Australian landscape and the natural world being a continual joy & inspiration. She finds this in oceanic landscapes, still life’s, interiors and dreamscapes; images that include surrealist elements – a tiny body in an enormous ocean, the wings of enormous birds, green mangoes, lush tropical plants, and the nocturnal world – moons, stars, the headlights of a Citroen Goddess car making its way through the desert…