Artist: Jennifer Andrews

Title : Even the Desert Bears a Seed

Media: Acrylic and Mixed Media on canvas

About the painting:-

I am fascinated by symbolism and also by the power of image and colour to communicate. I like to explore traditional Christian symbols and themes within in an Australian context. When I visited Gayndah in the middle of a severe drought, a lone bottle tree clinging to life on the side of a very windswept and barren hill ( I think the only hill in Gayndah! ) caught my attention. It was as if despite the seeming hopelessness of the situation, this tree was determined to survive. I used this as inspiration for a series of stained glass window designs for the Anglican church in Gayndah and for a series of paintings.

Creation Begins with a Blank Page   ... mixed media on paper          

The Philospher  acrylic on canvas