Description
Landscape Oil Painting including frame – depicting an original Australian Settler’s home typical of the pastoral regions of Queensland.
Come in beckons the open gate set between two large fence posts made from tree trunks, (it’s a given these have originally been cut down from the property). Old wooden pickets help to support the strands of falling barb wire threaded through the fence. Bracken fern and long blades of grass grow wild through the fence wire, whilst a dying gum tree fills a corner of the painting. A grassy path coloured in shades of green, yellow and brown leads to the old, worn, weatherboard shack with its rusty roof and rocking chair, waiting expectantly for you to sit a spell on the verandah. A down pipe juts out from the roof to guide the rainwater into the old galvanized water tank mounted on a stand, so customary of the era. The smoke softly rising from the chimney, and the winter hues of the different trees, indicate that the temperature is cool and crisp. A white picket fence stands on its last legs in the background. The rundown but charming, condition of the property leads you to think that the home’s occupants are now quite old, and have probably lived there happily most of their life.
A yesteryear painting set in a lovely ornate frame in shades of light and dark browns with a velvet insert.
Size 500mm x 415mm
