$210.00
Certificate of Authenticity Included
Every original artwork ships with a signed Certificate of Authenticity confirming title, medium, dimensions, and artist provenance. Created with archival-quality pigment ink on acid-free paper.
An elephant strides forward in loose black ink, quiet strength in every brushstroke. Original artwork, framed.
This elephant is on the move. It walks straight towards you out of the white of the page, built from sweeping strokes of black ink that thin to a dry rasp at their edges. The brush has been dragged fast in places, leaving broken, bristled marks where the paper shows through, and pressed slow in others, settling into deep solid black along the trunk and legs. Scattered splatters fly around the figure, thrown off by the speed of the hand. Nothing has been tidied up afterwards. The drawing keeps every trace of the few minutes it took to make, and that is exactly where its life comes from.
The title says what the piece is really about. Elephants carry more sheer presence than almost anything else that walks, yet the thing you notice standing near one is how carefully it moves. Gentle at Heart tries to hold both truths in a single image. The mass is there in the weight of the ink and the forward roll of the stride, while the looseness of the marks softens everything, so the animal reads as unhurried rather than imposing. It is walking your way, and you feel no urge to step back. That is the quality worth living with on a wall, a big animal that brings calm into the room instead of taking it.
The work is hand-inked on paper at Running Duck Studio in Dayboro, in the hills north of Brisbane. Ink is an unforgiving medium. There is no underdrawing to lean on and no way to lift a mark once the brush touches down, so every stroke is a small commitment made at full speed. That risk is the appeal. When a gesture lands, it carries an energy that slow, careful rendering never quite matches, and the dry-brush passages here record the exact pace of the hand that made them. Tilt the piece towards a window and the heaviest areas show a low sheen where the ink sat thickest before it dried, giving the flat black a quiet depth you only catch in person.
The elephant belongs to the Endangered Animals collection, a series of ink works given over to species under real pressure in the wild. Bringing one into your home is a small act of attention, a daily reminder of what quiet strength looks like. This is the original drawing, one of one, never reproduced as a print. It arrives in its frame, ready for the wall, with the stride given room to keep coming.
Gentle at Heart, elephant love
