GALLERY 2
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Returning
90 X 100 cm
Acrylic on Canvas
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Banana Seller
75 X 100 cm
Oil on Canvas
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Island Sunday
100 X 125 cm
Oil on Canvas
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Quiet Time
60 X 90 cm
Oil
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Island Christmas
75 X 150 cm
Oil on Canvas
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Conversation by the Sea
70 X 90 cm
Oil
Pacific Connections
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Shell Lady Dreaming
75 X 100 cm
Acrylic on Canvas
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Banana Blues
40 X 55 cm
Mixed Media on Paper
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Coast Road
60 X 90 cm
Oil on Canvas
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Crossroads
60 X 75 cm
Oil
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Mother & Child - Fiji
45 X 60 cm
Oil
After my marriage in 1970 I travelled extensively with my husband, Bruce, while he worked in the Pacific Islands. For the past 10 years, the memories of the emotive qualities that first shaped my initial perceptions from the early happy days in Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Tonga and Western Samoa, have been remembered in my series of Pacific Island paintings, drawings and sculptures. The outcome is a large body of richly textured and expressive works encapsulating, for me, the Spirit of the Pacific Islands.
Like other artists, such as Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse and Ray Crooke, I have also been strongly influenced by my time in the Pacific Islands. However, for me, their images are from the male artist's perspective while my images reflect my empathy with the day to day lives of the women and children of the Islands as they go about their daily tasks.