“SELF PORTRAIT WITH SARDINES ON TOAST”

This artwork is aready stretched ready to hang and it can be mailed to you free of charge if you live in a major city or regional centre of Australia. If you live in remote areas or overseas, I can have it sent to you free of charge, unstretched and rolled in a mailing tube. Because it has been stretched before, it is an easy matter for a framer to restretch it. Please enquire so we can decide what shipping method suits you best.

Even I think this is a very quirky painting. I thought it was going to be a completely random abstract work, and I started with the canvas upside down (not unusual). But it ended up being a self portrait although I acknowledge you need to look at it for quite a while to 'get' it! There's a lot to see and appreciate in the colour harmonies, composition and content of this work if you have a sense of humour ...... Still, it was a finalist in the 2024 Noosa Art Prize, so I'm not the only one who likes it.

I like the way the artwork takes your eyes through the interesting shapes, colours and swirling lines, and then suddenly you come across a slice of toast with a sardine on it, or a tin of sardines, a cup of coffee or, heaven forbid, a portrait of the artist with her wild curly white hair!

You will find the print on this website under Prints - Abstracts. A Limited Edition print does not detract from the artwork, in fact it tends to increase its value, because there is only ever one Original (and YOU may be lucky enough to have it!). However, these high quality prints do have their place in the scheme of things. You can have a larger size than the original artwork, which suits larger homes, and because prints are much cheaper than the original, but still have the same WOW factor, you can get a lot more "bang for your buck" when you are buying art. These are such high quality prints that most people can not even tell that it is not the original! For more information about this option, please see the print itself and go over to my FAQ for more information.