Crotons IV Victoria’s Garden Rarotonga 2014
Acrylic on canvas
1220mm x 910mm
Barry Dabb is an artist, art historian and curator who paints from his home studio in Tauranga. Since the late 1990’s he has been documenting domestic gardens throughout the South Pacific, including locations in Rarotonga, Samoa, Niue and Vanuatu. Each of these lush settings contain species that are often not indigenous to their island habitats. They reflect a subtle form of infiltration both of the flora and the culture that has occurred over many years.
Crotons IV Victoria’s Garden Rarotonga - 2014 was displayed at his 20-year retrospective exhibition “Grafted: Paintings of Contemporary Polynesian Gardens by Barry Dabb” at the Tauranga Art Gallery in 2016/17.
You can learn more about this artist at: www.barrydabb.co.nz
Artwork purchased from Zeus Gallery, Tauranga