PROVENANCE

Private Collection, acquired directly from the artist

ILLUSTRATED

p. 82 Michael Smither, Painter, Trish Gribben & Ron Sang, Ron Sang Publications 2004

As part of my research to draw and paint dolphins for a dust jacket commission for Maurice Shadbolt's novel, This Summer's Dolphin, I went through a steep learning curve in interspecies communication. I prepared a slate board to draw dolphins underwater (at the Napier aquarium). They crowded round to to get a look over my shoulder as I worked. I'm certain that they recognised themselves.

Michael Smither in Michael Smither, Painter, Trish Gribben & Ron Sang, Ron Sang Publications 2004