Description
Artist: Lloyd Hornsby
Title: Sunrise over Purnululu (framed)
Dimensions: 122.1 W x 91.5 D
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Price: $4800.00 including gst
Artists Statement: This image depicts a sunrise over the Bungle Bungle’s in West Australia. The beautiful sandstone formations are evident in this area. The artist produced this work with the permission of a local elder. It is a remote area managed as wilderness, being a spectacularly incised landscape of sculptured rocks which contains superlative examples of beehive-shaped karst sandstone rising 250 metres above the surrounding semi-arid savannah grasslands. Unique depositional processes and weathering have given these towers their spectacular black and orange banded appearance, formed by biological processes of cyanobacteria which serve to stabilise and protect the ancient sandstone formations. These outstanding examples of cone karst that have eroded over a period of 20 million years are of great beauty and exceptional geological interest.
