by Yvonne Callaway

You’ve heard the refrain, “So, where do you get your ideas?” Answer: EVERYWHERE.

I was very taken with a fishy wind chime in a charming global crafts shop years ago, so brought it home.

The wooden fish were brightly coloured, three-dimensional, smile-inducing. The charm didn’t wear off, so I thought these fish could model for me.

They generated whimsy as I caught them in several ways. They are suspended from real wire laced through the canvas, just above a No Fishing pictogram. In the middle distance a parrot fish is leaving / passing through with a stick and a tramp’s bundle over her shoulder.

The delineation between sea and sky isn’t clear – is it there? The fish are kinda floating in space – how, why? Don’t know. But I find the painting as smile-inducing as the wind chime!

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