Kaikoura Bones - Painting by A.M. Rush

Drawn from a personal journey to Kaikoura, this painting emerged from long, solitary walks along the stony beaches—moments of quiet reckoning while processing grief. Among the driftwood and salt-washed stones, seal bones revealed themselves as artifacts of reflection, ancient and delicate. Their worn shapes and soft shadows pulled the artist in—symbols of what endures after loss.

There is deep stillness here, not of emptiness but of acceptance. Kaikoura Bones holds space for memory and mourning, where the meeting of form and shadow becomes a quiet kind of healing.