Settlement Day Painting

Settlement Day - the history of Tasmania, like other former British colonies, has a sad history of invasion, dispossession and degradation of its native peoples. You can decide what you like about this image - are these the rightful owners returning home, or the invaders? Or are they just passing through on the way somewhere else? I had a lot of fun painting this picture, after mulling over the idea in my mind for several years and it's one of the very few paintings that pretty much fulfilled my hopes for it. There are always a lot of partially resolved paintings in my head. It gets crowded in there, because going from the mental image and the emotion I want to express to a visible image on canvas it not as easy as you might think. I feel the little blue-eyed lamb is particularly cute.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:38.2 W x 26 H x 2 D in

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