Pape Moe - Mysterious Water print Acrylic and on cotton damask

Acrylic and on cotton damask on canvas

Imprimé avec une encre pigmentaire 12 couleurs sur papier Canson en coton 310 g/m²

I am so proud an honoured that my portrait titled 'Unnamed' of Midori Goto was  selected as a finalist the 2022 Portia Geach Memorial Award

Acrylic and mixed media on traditional Tahitian Pereu print on canvas - 152 x 102cm

Pape Moe - Mysterious Water print Acrylic and on cotton damaskLimited edition of 120 Pape Moe means Mysterious Water in Tahitian The face of a Tahitian Vahine is the bed rock for a waterfall. Painted on a Tahitian print, the floral motifs merge to become a head dress island scape. In the head dress I have painted a classic Gaugin image of an islander drinking from a natural spring, after his painting 'Pape Moe'. The spring cascades down the composition becoming the tears of the Vahine (woman) symbolising not