Fiona Smith Plumassier
Original painting 2023
Oil on canvas, 90 x 60cm, oak frame
Initialed by the artist on the front and signed on verso (reverse).
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The Sarus crane is a large nonmigratory crane found in parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia. This one is elegantly posing on a floor of Victorian encaustic tiles and is set against a background, loosely based on 1970s wallpaper found in a house in Cheltenham, Sydney. A plumassier is someone who works with feathers.
Fiona Smith
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Fiona Smith paints birds. She was raised on the fringes of a national park in Sydney, where the wildlife was far more plentiful than willing human playmates. With no urban playgrounds nearby, her childhood centred around forging friendships with the feathered and furred creatures that strayed onto her parents’ property, set on McCarrs Creek in Sydney’s Northern Beach...
