Original watercolour, gouache and pastel by Kate Morgan RI.
Artwork dimensions: 56 x 39cm
Framed dimensions: 81 x 64 cm
This original painting ships triple mounted in a Italian white curved frame.
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Description of Camouflage
Camouflage unfolds like a living tapestry, where nothing exists alone and everything is on the verge of becoming something else. The painting is dense with life—layer upon layer of foliage, water, wing, and skin—so intricately interwoven that the eye must slow down, learning to see rather than merely look.
A heron glides across the upper plane, its wings stretched wide, echoing the branching forms of leaves and fronds around it. Below, frogs appear and disappear within reeds, lily pads, and curling stems, their bodies repeating the greens, yellows, and speckled rhythms of the environment. Water threads through the composition in winding paths, reflecting light in patterns that mimic veins in leaves or the ripple of feathers. Nothing is sharply separated; edges blur, overlap, and dissolve.
Color is exuberant but purposeful—turquoise and jade pool beside bursts of pink and gold, creating a visual music that feels both tropical and dreamlike. The surface seems to shimmer, as if the entire ecosystem is breathing. Every plant and creature participates in the same visual language, sharing shapes, textures, and tones until distinction becomes optional.
The title, Camouflage, feels less about hiding and more about belonging. The animals are not concealing themselves from danger; they are simply indistinguishable from the world that made them. The painting suggests a quiet philosophy: survival through harmony, visibility through pattern, identity through connection. In this world, to blend in is not to disappear—it is to be perfectly, vibrantly alive.
