Original artwork description:

My paintings draw on the familiar landscapes of Tasmania, reflecting its shapes and colours and history. I live in my grandfather's house and I have found in distant valleys the over-grown ruins of fallen farmsteads built by my great-grandfather, or his grandfather. From family photographs dating back to the 1870s I know the stories of the land as told by the English invaders. My cousin owns the hills and valleys in the foreground of this painting. I added a portrait of our great-grandfather.

Materials used:

oil paint on canvas

Tags:
#landscape #farm #history #machinery #grandfather 

Grandfather's Tale (2008)

Oil painting 
by Elizabeth Barsham

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My paintings draw on the familiar landscapes of Tasmania, reflecting its shapes and colours and history. I live in my grandfather's house and I have found in distant valleys the over-grown ruins of fallen farmsteads built by my great-grandfather, or his grandfather. From family photographs dating back to the 1870s I know the stories of the land as told by the English invaders. My cousin owns the hills and valleys in the foreground of this painting. I added a portrait of our great-grandfather.

Materials used:

oil paint on canvas

Tags:
#landscape #farm #history #machinery #grandfather 
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My ancestors were among the earliest English settlers in Tasmania where wildlife and geology are exotic even by Australian standards. Living in my grandfather's house, I paint the history of Europeans in this... Read more

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