Children playing at Avarua Wharf Wood Print

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This painting was based on many sketches. For weeks, I went on Saturday afternoon to the wharf of Avarua, sketching the children play in the clean and balmy tropical warm water. The small fishing boats were their swings, slides and islands, and whoever kept their boat there, must have agreed to share them with the kids. It was a scene of wild, loud happiness and fun. After a while I noticed the rules of cooperation among the children, how they watched before they jumped, how they would help each other to get up on boats - while they pushed another off.
Avarua wharf is also the location of the legendary bar Trader Jack�s, where the locals meet each other and visitors, while the kids play and show off. It�s a social center of Rarotonga, the main island of the Cook Islands in the south Pacific.

Judith Kunzle is drawing dancers in action, paints mountains en plein air, and many other subjects she encounters. Judith lived for 30 years in the South Pacific, mostly in the Cook Islands, two years on Hawaii and six years in California. In 2021 she returned to Switzerland. Judith Kuenzle zeichnet Taenzer in action, malt Berge en plein air und andere Sujets die ihr begegnen. Judith lebte 30 Jahre im Sued Pazifik, vor allem in den Cook Inseln, zwei Jahre in Hawaii und sechs Jahre in Kalifornien. Seit 2021 lebt sie wieder in die Schweiz.