$410.00
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.
Original ink and wash portrait of an Australian farmer grinning under his Akubra, drawn in Dayboro, Queensland.
Some faces carry their whole story on the surface, and this farmer wears his openly. He grins out from under the brim of his Akubra, eyes creased against decades of Queensland sun, and the warmth of that grin is the heart of the piece. This is not a solemn portrait of rural hardship. It is a portrait of a man who loves his country, his own patch of it especially, and who has earned every line on his face doing exactly what he wanted to be doing. The title says it plainly: Love My Country.
The drawing itself moves fast. Loose black brushstrokes set down the hat, the jaw and the deep creases around the eyes in single confident passes, while grey wash floods in behind them to soften the shadows and round out the face. Large areas of the paper stay untouched, letting white light do the work a fussier drawing would smother. Look closely and you can follow the order of the marks, where the brush ran nearly dry across the brim of the hat and where the ink pooled wet along the collar. That visible energy is deliberate. A face this alive would go stiff under careful rendering, so the portrait keeps the speed of a sketch with the weight of a finished work.
The piece was drawn in pigment ink on paper at Running Duck Studio in Dayboro, a farming town in the hills northwest of Brisbane where faces like this one are still part of daily life. Cattle country surrounds the studio, and the people who work it pass the window most mornings. That closeness shows in the drawing. The Akubra sits the way a worn hat actually sits, pushed back a touch, shaped by years of weather and handling rather than posed for effect.
The portrait comes framed and ready to hang. Black and white ink work settles comfortably into almost any room, from a modern hallway to a timber homestead wall, because the drawing carries its own quiet contrast and needs nothing around it to perform. It suits anyone with a connection to the land, a grandfather remembered, a family property, or simply an affection for the kind of open, weathered friendliness this face gives back every time you walk past it.
Love My Country, Australian farmer with his Akubra
