In a clearing washed with soft green light, a quiet procession moves through the bush. At its heart, a child rides a steady horse, small hands resting with trust and wonder, while an older figure sits close behind, a guardian presence shaped by time and sun. Their blue shirts glow against the earth, like fragments of sky fallen into the land, and their wide-brimmed hats tilt toward the open distance, eyes lifted as if reading the country’s unspoken signs.
Around them flows the living river of cattle—warm browns, pale creams, and dusky whites—pressing forward with slow patience. Their bodies overlap and breathe together, a rhythm of hooves and hides, guided not by force but by familiarity. Dry grasses whisper at knee height, and broken branches lie scattered like reminders of journeys already taken.
The trees rise slender and pale, their trunks bending gently, their leaves dissolving into brushstrokes of green and gold.
Port Macquarie NSW
The Drover's Child
Height cm 75 Width cm 133
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