Life on Fafa Island, 1989

Life on Fafa Island, 1989

Oil on canvas
50.5 x 61.5 cm
Framed: 67.6 x 78 cm
Signed ‘Rigby’ & dated lower right

Comments: During 1989, John Rigby and his wife Margaret (pictured in this painting) travelled to the Cook Islands, Samoa (called Western Samoa at the time) American Samoa and Tonga.

Rigby painted this work on Fafa Island in the Kingdom of Tonga. The island was hit by a tsunami from the nearby major volcanic eruption in mid-January 2022 and is now covered in volcanic ash.