Price range: $190.00 through $210.00
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
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An Australian blue-eyed Corella takes flight in ink and watercolour, all wind, wing and wild yellow light.
Blue Eyed Winds catches a blue-eyed Corella at the exact moment the air takes over. Wings raised, body tilted into the current, the bird seems to lift straight off the paper. Loose black brushstrokes trace the force of the wingbeat while soft yellow watercolour washes bleed through the white plumage like early morning sun through feathers. Flecks of ink splatter trail behind the bird, the visual echo of speed, noise and sheer corella attitude.
The piece is built on the tension between control and letting go. The ink work is laid down fast and committed, because ink forgives nothing. Once a stroke lands, it stays. The watercolour comes in behind it, wet and unhurried, allowed to pool and feather at its own pace. That contrast is what gives the painting its sense of movement: hard, confident line against drifting colour, the same push and pull a bird feels between muscle and wind. Generous white space around the Corella does the rest, giving it open sky to fly into.
Anyone who has lived under Australian skies knows the corella. They arrive in loud, wheeling flocks at dawn, screeching across paddocks and river gums, then wheel away again just as suddenly. Up close, the giveaway is that ring of bare blue skin around the eye, a small jolt of colour in all that white. This painting borrows the spirit of those birds rather than a field guide likeness. It is about the racket, the joy and the independence of a creature that answers to nobody, painted by an artist who watches them do exactly that.
Blue Eyed Winds suits a room that needs energy without clutter. The palette is restrained, white, black and warm yellow, so it sits comfortably against most walls, yet the movement in the brushwork keeps drawing the eye back. It belongs with bird lovers, with collectors of contemporary Australian wildlife art, and with anyone who has ever watched a flock of corellas tear across the sky and felt a bit lighter for it. As an original, it is one of one. The exact bleed of those yellow washes and the flick of every ink splatter can never be repeated.
Blue Eyed Winds
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
