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Bondi Outsider (2024)Oil painting by Bridie O'Brien

31 x 41 x 2cm (framed) / 30 x 40cm (actual image size)

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BONDI OUTSIDER

Bondi was stinking hot. Haze hung low, weird colours... pink, turquoise, like a 'My Little Pony' had smeared itself on a cloud. Along the boulevard, the surf-watchers lined the rail, shadows stretching long and thin, umbra and penumbra ghosts crawling across the tiles and spilling onto the sand.

I was one of them, though I told myself I wasn’t. Outsider, I liked to think. But there I stood, jammed in with prams and pie eaters, backpackers squinting, gym junkies flexing. All of us leaning on the fence, watching the churn and buzz below.

The question hung there, unspoken. Step down, let the sand scorch our feet, or stay put in the shade, safe in the comfort of laziness.

Oil on stretched canvas / 40 x 30cm / framed in oak and ready to hang.

Materials used:

oil paint

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Tags:

#summertime#australia#bondi beach#bondi#sydney australia

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BONDI OUTSIDER

Bondi was stinking hot. Haze hung low, weird colours... pink, turquoise, like a 'My Little Pony' had smeared itself on a cloud. Along the boulevard, the surf-watchers lined the rail, shadows stretching long and thin, umbra and penumbra ghosts crawling across the tiles and spilling onto the sand.

I was one of them, though I told myself I wasn’t. Outsider, I liked to think. But there I stood, jammed in with prams and pie eaters, backpackers squinting, gym junkies flexing. All of us leaning on the fence, watching the churn and buzz below.

The question hung there, unspoken. Step down, let the sand scorch our feet, or stay put in the shade, safe in the comfort of laziness.

Oil on stretched canvas / 40 x 30cm / framed in oak and ready to hang.

Materials used:

oil paint

Details:

Tags:

#summertime#australia#bondi beach#bondi#sydney australia

Featured by our Editors:

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Bridie O'Brien

Location Australia

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I am a visual artist and lifelong musician. I was raised on a working farm in country NSW, Australia. Having graduated from the Australian Institute of Music in 1998, my... Read more

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