Ibis on the River Flat Acrylic on Board 40x40 cm (sold) "I like to strip back to the bone - remove the superfluous" "Brolga's dancing on paddocks covered with sheets of water and a profusion of frogs, 'plovers' and water rats " feature in Bain's earliest memories of his adolescence spent exploring swamps, lakes and sinkholes. He recollects " a consciousness of birds migrating and the integral connection between birds and water". It is one of the greatest phenomena of nature a