"Taniwha Vagina"

Oil painting on panel.
Framed & mounted.
390 x 530 x 60mm
(SOLD)
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Taniwha Vagina is a work that I completed in 2017. I set out to create a space that suggested movement, of fluidity but solidity, of water and rock. Using simple earthen colours I practiced gradients and blending. As this process went on I was enamoured by the palette I had chosen; the colours reminded me of the country I grew up in—New Zealand. I remembered the Maori mythology, and the story of the Taniwha which is said to be a water monster that lives in dark caves or the ocean.