Original Painting - Koru Fern & Monarch Butterfly

An original artwork of a NZ fern frond & monarch butterfly.  Painted with professional artist's acrylic on 300gsm gessoed watercolour paper (16x21cm).

The painting comes mounted with a white mat border, for easy framing, ready to fit a standard 8x10 inch frame (approx 20x25cm).  (Third photo shows example framing.)

All materials used are acid free and archival quality.

ABOUT THE PAINTING
The big, bright and beautiful monarch butterfly is a native of New Zealand - it introduced itself here most likely in the early 1800's, from North America.  They can travel incredible distances - some have been known to travel 5000 kilometres!  The one in this painting is enjoying a rest on a baby ponga (silver fern) frond.

When deciding on the composition for this piece, I chose to have the monarch perch on the unfurling fern to mirror the curled up shape of the butterfly's proboscis, which reminded me of a koru!

All images are copyright © Sarah Potton