John Olsen (1928 – 2023)
‘Popping Blue Bottles’ 2007

Olsen's feeling for the Australian environment was demonstrated in his landscapes that teemed with life, with irregular squiggles and dots imposed on loosely brushed and stained expanses of colour.

Complex floating fleets of bluebottles (Physalia utriculus) arrive on Australian beaches seasonally, often carried by warm currents to more temperate waters. These small blue jellyfish are blown onshore in autumn and winter, less often in summer. Children have been known to pop their inflated blue sails.

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