R i d e r s i n t h e C h a r i o t

Etching to illustrate the novel by Patrick White

Image size 35 cm x 36 cm

Prints available price £90 (also in black and white)

About the image content: the four figures are Himmelfarb (the Jew who escaped the gas chambers), Mary Hare (the eccentric nature-lover), Mrs Godbold (the laundress with many children), Dubbo (the aborigine painter), who is the only rider to `see’ the complete picture before he dies – prematurely – of TB. Other elements include: the aboriginal rainbow snake and other motifs from aboriginal art (dream-circles, figures and animals), a horse and chariot wheels with stave borrowed from Kandinsky