Oliver Watts

Harlequin Beetles II

2024

acrylic on canvas

72 x 56 cm

Description

Calypso marks a further extension of the maritime genre in Watts’ painting. From rescued shipwrecked sailors to Sydney Rock Oysters, he finds poetry in the everyday and the mythic in equal measure. North Head looms over the unfolding drama, as Sydney Harbour is recast in original ways.