The design on this fine bone china coffee mug is from a prize-winning painting titled ‘Wheat Field’ I completed in 1990.

In the foreground, perspective is bent so the viewer is looking vertically down into the stems of the ripe wheat plants, with the heads of wheat bent and hanging as they do when the grain is ripe – more so in a good harvest. In the midground of the wheat field recedes into rolling hills of farmland showing the harvesting operation and distant clouds set against a warm blue sky. The work draws attention to a single humble seed head that, when counted in the billions, drive the Australia wheat industry. Hence the warped perspective to draw attention to the minute and expansive in the one frame.