Painting in acrylic on canvas from 2025, by Vanessa Playford.

Artist note: the figurative bellows with finely sculpted head was a critical component of blacksmithing, and a powerful symbol of the important connections between metalworking arts and sacred kingship. 

Original image from Tribal Art magazine, Belgium. 

dimensions (incl. frame)
height: 49cm
width: 39cm
depth: 6cm
weight: 1.37kg

canvas
height: 46cm
width: 36cm

Artwork.
Acrylic on canvas.
Solid walnut frame.
Made in Australia.

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Vanessa Playford lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She is a self proclaimed "outsider artist" and has pursed her own journey into abstraction to investigate the many forms of emotion and space within the human condition.

The tension between meditative observation and dynamic energy is offered through a myriad of colours, tones, and paint applications, from wispy flickers to determined impasto strokes.

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