Intimate - Akiaki (juvenile Red-billed Gull) (print)
From an original acrylic painting by Marie-Claire Colyer
Limited Edition prints are embossed, signed and numbered and come with a certificate of authenticity.
Printed on Canson Rag Photographique paper (archival, 100% cotton, 210gsm for A4 and A3, 310gsm for A2) using fade-proof archival inks.
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ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Close-up of a young Red-Billed Seagull. The Red-billed Gull is a native of New Zealand, being found throughout the country and on outlying islands including the Chatham Islands and Sub-Antarctic islands. Its Maori name is Tarapunga or Akiaki.
This fine art print of an acrylic painting is based on a photograph I took of a juvenile seagull while walking by Army Bay in Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland. It was the calm appraisal that struck me. I remember the grass verdant beneath my hands and under the grey feathers, the sun strong on our heads, the distant call of other gulls. I crouched a few meters away and for a few minutes of quietude there was only the gull and I appraising one another.