Little Girl – Matt Shanks' Shop

Note from the artist

I love this sketch and it's a bittersweet thing, to offer it for sale. After a recent trip to Japan, I was obsessed with ink – how to use it so minimally in the way the japanese do so beautifully. Small, swift strokes make this little girl a perfect example of how, with such few strokes, one can have so much personality.

Original art

Little Girl

A small sketch of a little girl with hand-ground ink stick & watercolour on Arches 300GSM watercolour paper.

Size: 14.5cm x 9.5cm

A$35

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My deep gratitude to our traditional custodians

I have lived and worked my whole life in Gadigal and Boon Wurrung Country in what we now call Australia. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I do my work and I pay my respects to elders past and present. I acknowledge the sorrow of the stolen generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I also recognise the resilience, strength and pride of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and through my work, aim to help as much as I can to empower and help them thrive.

About the author

Matt Shanks is an internationally-published and critically-acclaimed author/illustrator of over twenty picture books. Eric the Postie (2018) and Queen Celine (2019) were both awarded Notables by the CBCA for Picture Book of The Year. Rosie the Rhinoceros, written by Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes, and Herman Crab, written by one of Australia’s favourite comedians, Peter Helliar, is available now. Matt is a two-time fellow of the May Gibbs’ Children’s Literature Trust, an Australian Literary and Numeracy Foundation ambassador, co-editor of Words Like This, and works primarily in watercolour. He lives in Melbourne, Victoria, with his partner and cat.

Learn more at www.mattshanks.com.au