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Dampier Archipelago Western Australia 28/06/2004 112 x 112 x 4 cm Original Oil painting, on fine Belgian linen, heavy duty pine stretch actual painting weight: 7 kg Painting Inspiration: Being a bit of an ocean goer, we see a lot of turtles all the way through our travels, & of all the turtles we see green turtles are the majority. You can usually identify them by their quite small heads compared to their particularly volumous shells. We mainly encounter them basking on the sunny surface of the ocean but I have known them on shore while in their trance egg laying state on the west cost & the nests on the islands of Manguddu & Doo in Indonesia. To me the turtle represents an ancient reptilian ocean existence, diving passively & gracefully into the subconscious depths, the females especially representing fertility & abundance in their massive size & 200 hundred egg laying capacity. Living beneath the waves most of their lives, the green turtle starts its existence struggling, from a sand buried birth followed by a frantic scuttle, clambering over the naked beach stretch fraught with predators, for the relative cover of the open sea where they will grow & outgrow the majority of their predatory chasers.
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