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Grünfrosch (alle) (Pelophylax indet.)
(c) Winnie Hübner

Jane’s Walk Pune - Satya Natarajan talking about trees and the tree act

Sri Govardhana-lal

Through the narrow frame of the street, life kept rushing by — strangers passing, footsteps fading, reflections shifting across the glass. Yet in the middle of all that movement, the young violinist remained still, focused, and completely absorbed in her music.

There is something quiet and powerful in that contrast: the world around her feels temporary and restless, but the melody creates its own space. For a brief moment, the noise of the city becomes background, and the music becomes the only thing that truly stays.

John Glover
England/Australia 1767-1849
Title || Patterdale Farm c1840
oil on canvas

Painted towards the end of John Glover's career, Patterdale Farm depicts the artist's property at Mills Plains in northern lutruwita / Tasmania,
named after the town at the foot of the Ullswater in England's picturesque Lake District, close to where his home Blowick Farm stood.
As Glover transplanted his English pastoral ideal onto Tasmanian soil, he adjusted his style and palette to celebrate local light, colour and sense of expanse. The far-reaching vista of undulating hills, decoratively dotted by trees, is foregrounded by signs of Glover's settlement.
With golden harmonic tones, Glover offers a vision of his new Arcadia - the pairing of pastoral wealth and natural wildness - and a statement of his immersion within it.