Description
“She was the lead female of the pride – composed, commanding, and quietly apart. While the boisterous, well-grown cubs tumbled and wrestled below her, she sat on the rise above them, utterly unmoved by their noisy play. There was a regal calm about her, as though she were listening to something beyond the reach of sound.
Her gaze stayed fixed on the horizon, her body still, her thoughts elsewhere. It seemed as if she were waiting for something – perhaps for another lioness returning with her own new-born cubs, or perhaps for something only she understood.
That space between her and the rest of the pride, between the known and the anticipated, is what I wanted to paint – the distance between what is here and what is yet to come.”
An intelligent insight into the majestic stillness of this watercolour by award-winning Kenyan artist Karen Laurence-Rowe who has won the overall top award at the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year Exhibition in London twice, and continues to excel in her field. Click on the link below to see a short video of the inspiration for this painting, narrated by Karen herself.
