✦ ORIGINAL ENCAUSTIC ✦
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About This Artwork
Australia's sacred kingfishes perch high up in the shady canopies of gum trees, watching for the shimmering movement of fish in the waterways below. In the summer of 2024, this sacred kingfisher visited our garden every day, his beautiful teal and sapphire feathers flashing through the sky. I preserved his memory for ever using a modern adaptation of the ancient Greek technique of burning layers of beeswax, resin, pigments and inks into wood.