Located on the North coast of South America, surrounded by Brazil and Venezuela, Guyana is a small country rich in resources. The Guyana landscape was a puzzle of different elements, it has vast savannas, jungles, plains, mountains, rivers, lakes and waterfalls. It reminded me of an old game called the Settlers of Catan, where the play board was set up anew each time with hexagons of various terrains. The colonial aspect of Settlers of Catan seemed to be a fitting statement on many countries in the southern hemisphere that were taken by colonial powers. To make the painting I created a cardboard hexagon template using a formula from the internet. To draw a perfect hexagon, make a circle, then draw the edges of the hexagon, which are each as long as the radius of the circle. The template helped to establish the scaffold of the design. The hexagon fill was inspired by all the colours and -patterns I saw from the pictures of Guyana, including a prominent black-rock mountain and a large waterfall.
World Inspired Landscapes: Guyana, watercolour 10 x 11" cold press, February 2023 (No. 3369)
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