Stubbs Dingo Swallows Ponies

watercolour and pencil on Arches paper 90 x 123cm (framed)

$9,000

George Stubbs, the renowned British animal painter of the 18th century was commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks to create a painting of a dingo without ever seeing one. He was given a pelt which he inflated as his model to create 'Portrait of a Large Dog' (Dingo). In my reimagined hybrid landscape, I reference this inaccurate Australian native fauna silhouette to swallow a menagerie of loosely stylized ponies also by Stubbs to create a romantic antipodean anomaly.