Windswept Manuka

from Tamatea: Art and Conservation in Dusky Sound

Acrylic on linen

910 x 610mm

SOLD

Often one of the first species to regenerate on cleared land, Hunter came across this scrub of manuka on Anchor island. Fascinated by the twisted, entwined sculpture wrought by constant battering from prevailing winds, the manuka seems a captive audience, bony branched fingers forking upwards, dense mob-capped heads craning skywards to follow the flight of birds, free, untrammelled by roots holding them fast to Papatūānuku .