"'I usually have strange encounters with animals. Of all kinds."

I followed a link to this piece on the Australian painter Sally West because the Wikipedia entry on Ben Mendelsohn mentioned that she’d once painted his portrait, but what I really like is the beachscape at the top of the article, which apparently is more typical of her work. The article’s title is nice, too, though I find the body of the text a little… trying too hard to be poetic?

Hardly West’s fault, of course, if people write about her that way: Sally West: The Bird of Song with Claws of Paint