Jorgen Bechmann, Kookaburras, Kingfisher, Signed and Numbered Serigraph

Description

Kookaburras
Jorgen Bechmann
On a clear autumn morning the glowing color of dawn was breaking up the grey night sky, turning the quietude into the sounds of a new day.
This is when the kingfishers are busy with their morning catch, diving into the cool calm lakes and rivers and the pale blue morning sea.
In the beginning all kingfishers were blue, blending well with their habitats, but some birds decided that life should not be all wet - they wanted to be independent of water-hunting - making all of Australia their natural habitat.
The blue kingfishers named their deserting cousins ‘kookaburras’, meaning the ones to be laughed at
.
K
OOKABURRA (Cook-a-bar-ra)
The Kookaburra is about 45 cm (18 ins) long and weighs about .5 kg (1 lb). It has a big square head and really huge beak. The Kookaburra is the worlds biggest kingfisher. It eats small animals, snakes, large insects and lizards. The way it eats snakes is neat. It swoops down and grabs the snake from behind its head and then flies up high into the air and then drops the snake to kill it. Sometimes it bashes the snake against a branch to kill it.
The Kookaburra has a very strange voice. It almost sounds like a person laughing. That's why it is sometimes called a
Laughing Kookaburra
. Kookaburras can get really noisy when arguing with each other about who is in someone else's territory.
This serigraph is hand-colored
This limited edition is: Signed and numbered
The edition size/date is: 119/1986
The issue price was: 5.00
The image size is: 16½”x23½”
The serigraph was published by: Art Nouveau Publishers
This serigraph has never been framed and has been
stored flat since publication.
Please note: If this print is a ‘signed and numbered’ print and we have included a photograph of the number or something showing the number – we are NOT promising you will receive THAT numbered print. We have more than one of the print and the photo is of one of them.
Jorgen Bechmann
Jorgen Bechmann arrived in Australia in 1980 and now lives in Sydney. His Scandinavian heritage and training, evident in his crisp, clean style, give him the ability to simplify the complex, while retaining the essence of the object or the scene. His work has an enormous appeal .... like a breath of fresh air. It illustrates his infatuation with Australia’s natural environment, a fact which is obvious from his first series of screenprints, titled ‘If you saw through my eyes, Australia,’ and even more so in his latest paintings and prints, ‘Modern Australian Dreamtimes.’
Bechmann has lived and exhibited in the Middle East, Europe, America, England and North Africa. His original prints are sold throughout the world and editions disappear fast. They are
not
reproductions - but original works of art, conceived by an artist who is deliberately using his chosen medium to create an effect which could not be achieved any other way.
Whether lithographed, etched, collage screened, screen printed, relief-embossed or wood lino blocked - the print shows a vitality and clarity of image which cannot be achieved with mechanical reproduction.
The original prints were hand printed by JORGEN BECHMANN and his master screen printer, Mike Phelps, in very small editions.