Averill Lawler - Where the Land and Sea Entwine, Calverts Beach, Storm Bay
$950.00
Where the Land and Sea Entwine,
Calverts Beach, Storm Bay
Averill Lawler
Oil on wooden panel
50cm diameter
Artist's Staement - Where the Land and Sea Entwine
I grew up on the shores of the Derwent River where the estuary morphs into Storm Bay. My playground was the sand dunes and a curious series of rockpools with a small rocky reef only visible when the tide is at its lowest ebb. In this place, golden rocks shine through the water and play with the turquoise and sea greens of the river.
Where the Land and Sea Entwine, started with a series of small paintings of my childhood rockpools. I see them and think of the hours spent exploring, playing, spotting tiny translucent baitfish, sand crabs under the rocks, anemones. The pools full of Neptune’s Necklace, tiny white barnacles, limpets and mussels. These seascapes, so dear to me, are echoed along the coastline of lutruwita/Tasmania and are quite universal too.
