Child of Green Rains captures the feel of a long, hot Queensland summer just before the storm finally breaks. The whole scene is built as a big, unapologetic field of greens and yellows – more about atmosphere than perfection – made to drop a wall of colour into an ordinary room. In the middle distance a young girl moves along a humid, sub-tropical track, small but steady, as light spills down through a canopy of trees and tin-roof glare. It’s memory, sweat, and heat-haze turned into paint.
For the artist, this is a return to childhood in South East Queensland: cicadas shrieking, afternoon storms building, and the easy, laconic freedoms of being a Gen X kid in the 70s and 80s. The lone figure can read as a sister, a daughter, or simply the kid we all once were, walking ahead while the adults are busy elsewhere. She’s not posed or heroic – just moving forward easily through the weather of her own life, running ahead as though eager for the future. The path of reflections around her feels like shallow floodwater after a downpour, where the sky and gum leaves meet in broken patches on the ground.
Thick, palette-knife strokes stack vertically like trunks, weatherboards, and curtain rain. Deep bottle-greens sit beside sour limes, with flashes of ochre, sunlit cream, and teal blue punched through the surface. From across the room it reads as a lush abstract cacophony of grasses, fronds, and towering branches; up close, you can see the scraped edges, ridges of paint, and the small figure resolved from a handful of marks. The wide 2:1 format lets the colour run sideways across the wall, echoing the long, low horizon of suburban streets and coastal bush.
This is a natural fit for living rooms, dining areas, hallways, and family spaces that need life without feeling precious. It sits comfortably above a sofa or sideboard, especially in homes that lean wide-open and relaxed – Australian and quietly grounded rather than formal. Child of Green Rains brings that first-breath-after-rain feeling indoors – fresh, green, a little nostalgic, and easy to live with.
Canvas & Materials
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Premium matte canvas on a 1.25" (3.2 cm) gallery-style stretcher
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Cotton–polyester composite canvas for a fine, painterly surface with excellent colour retention
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Inner frame made from radiata pine sourced from renewable forests
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Soft rubber dots on the back corners to protect walls and keep the canvas stable
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Hanging hardware included so the piece arrives ready to place and live with
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Please allow for slight size variation (± 1/8" / 3.2 mm) due to the handcrafted production process
Original Artwork by Abstract Artist Archie Kilmor.
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20" x 10" (Horizontal) |
30" x 15" (Horizontal) |
40" x 20" (Horizontal) |
48″ x 24″ (Horizontal) |
60" x 30" (Horizontal) |
| Width, in |
20.00 |
30.00 |
40.00 |
48.00 |
60.00 |
| Height, in |
10.00 |
15.00 |
20.00 |
24.00 |
30.00 |
| Depth, in |
1.25 |
1.25 |
1.25 |
1.25 |
1.25 |
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Product information: Generic brand, 2 year warranty in EU and Northern Ireland as per Directive 1999/44/EC
Care instructions: If the canvas does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, damp cloth.
