Original Watercolour
Dimensions: w: 92cm h: 69cm
£650
(mounted in antique white and framed in solid oak)
THE STORY BEHIND THE PAINTING
A poem called the Great Barrier Reef, here it is:
The Great Barrier Reef
There is beauty beyond belief
in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Where sunlit turquoise seas
ripple in the breeze.
There soft clean golden sands
embrace the verdant land,
and you may lie at ease
beneath tall coconut trees.
You can watch the seagulls fly
in an azure coloured sky,
or stroll along the shore,
finding places to explore.
Beneath the surface of the sea
there lies a word of fantasy,
a place so different from the land,
a world untouched by human hand.
Amid the shallows of the deep
countless creatures crawl and creep,
along the sandy ocean floor,
among the corals near the shore.
Fishes yellow, blue and green,
black and red are often seen,
swimming in the coral reef,
beautiful beyond belief.
Further out beyond the bay
swims the giant manta ray.
Swordfish, sharks and turtles too,
share the waters of the blue.
It’s there we see the giant whales,
slapping the water with their tails,
and schools of dolphins leap and play
in the salty ocean spray.
Of all the places that I've been
there is nothing I have seen,
to match the natural splendour there,
it truly is beyond compare.
by A Shacknofsky
(poetry hunter 2016)