World Inspired Landscapes: Ghana

 

Ghana is located in West Africa next to the Ivory Coast. It has one of the most stable democracies of all the African countries after becoming independent in the mid 19^th century. The landscape consists of a variety of terrain including grasslands mangroves and forests. There seems to be many types of large and small animals that live in Ghana including grey parrots. Grey parrots are considered old world birds that are found from Ivory coast into mainland central Africa as far as Kenya. Despite their drab grey colour, their tails tend to have scarlet red feathers. To play up the colourful tails, I combined the parrots with a misty jungle scene in the background. In the painting the parrots look sleek and elegant but in real life I guess they are very noisy and annoying, kind of like pigeons. At least we can appreciate the biodiversity and hope that countries rich in biodiversity can do their best to preserve it. 

World Inspired Landscapes: Ghana, watercolour 10 x 11" cold press, January 2023 (No. 3363)