Size: 19″ x 25.5 / 48 x 64cm
Medium: Acrylic on Acid Free Paper
Date: 2019
Status: SOLD
Description:
The Cape Buffalo and the Ox-pecker! One of natures special relationships - a little match made in heaven. The patience of the buffalo never ceases to amaze me especially when those ox-peckers get somewhat out of hand in their ceaseless hunt for ticks and parasites.
I tried to capture that moment just before the bird claims victory. The buffalo still and the red billed ox-pecker ready to strike.
There’s a lot of colour, texture and energy in the brush-work on the buffalo which is juxtaposed to the tighter rendering of the bird, belying the ‘violence’ of what is about to happen.
