The ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE.

Tartan has come to mean more to Lester recently as he experienced some of the influences it may have given his heritage, which played out in his father and grandfather's lives in Ettrick and Millar's Flat/Roxburgh in Central Otago. This artwork expresses that Scottish heritage in the background of his father's favourite scallywag, the Southern highland parrot.

'What I’ve learnt is that without gratitude, happiness is hard work. It is essential that I look to understand in what way I might be grateful rather than how offended I might be by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. My Dad, as a poverty-stricken child in the Depression in Central Otago, found great humour in these birds finding the best of their day by landing into the snow after sliding down the tin roofs of mountain huts.'

Unframed A3 printed by Lester Hall on Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper and K3 Archival Inks.