Pape Moe - Mysterious Water print Acrylic and on cotton damask

Acrylic and on cotton damask on canvas

au plus tard deux semaines avant le début de l’atelier

From the 'After Barcelona' exhibition

Limited edition fine art print on paper

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

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