{"product_id":"childrenatbreakfastpatearoa-smither","title":"Children at Breakfast Patearoa, Otago","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTechnique\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilk screenprint on Archival paper - edition 10 of 81.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMeasurements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e430 x 430mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the artwork\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChildren at Breakfast\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eContinuing with Smither’s Central Otago paintings, his work can be remembered by his experience of the South Island whilst living with his young family in ‘a shepherd’s hut Patearoa on the Moniototo Plains of Central Otago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Michael Smither is well known for capturing the small wonders of domestic life. \u003cbr\u003ePeering into these spartan rooms is to enter a child’s small world of looming objects and entangled limbs, a place where ordinary actions assume some of the pace and grace of rituals’ Children at Breakfast (1969-70) captures the colour of the atmosphere and ambience of those soft morning colours of light and shadows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Softened mustard tones, mauve and deep red hold the calmness while accentuating the calmness of the children. The sleepy heavy-lidded young ones suckling thumbs and cosy comfort blankets at the early morning breakfast table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe children look like truant angels from some trecento fresco’.\u003cbr\u003e They inhabit the impression of prayerful suspense. \u003cbr\u003eA daily snapshot soft-lit memory, before food is served, before going to bed, before the light is turned off, before the flame is blown out after the sun has set and their dreams roll down from the hills of the Otago ranges behind to meet the quiet and still of the cottage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the children within the safe walls of the home are settled and calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis reproduction is of a painting now in the collection of the Hocken Library, Dunedin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Smither CNZM 2018.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndependent Art Consultation Service\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf your space demands something different or unique, contact Christine Rabarts Art Curator for your independent personal in-house art consultation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM: 027 629 7408   E: art@christinerabarts.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Smither","offers":[{"title":"10 of 81 - 10154","offer_id":31243700437034,"sku":"10154","price":600.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2659\/6026\/products\/childrenatbreakfastpatearoa_otago_michaelsmither_breadandbutterartgallery5.jpg?v=1611273507","url":"https:\/\/www.breadandbutter.co.nz\/products\/childrenatbreakfastpatearoa-smither","provider":"Bread \u0026 Butter Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}