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First Pour by Kate Harkin – captures that small but perfect ritual that signals the start of summer — the first drink after a swim, the first long lunch of the weekend, the first moment you exhale and realise you have nowhere urgent to be.

Set against bold coastal stripes, the citrus becomes both subject and symbol: freshness, brightness, and the sensory memory of hot days cooled by salt air and tonic over ice. The composition leans into simplicity and balance — clean geometry softened by organic form — echoing the rhythm of Australian coastal living.

Like many of Kate Harkin’s still life works, First Pour sits somewhere between observation and atmosphere. It is less about the objects themselves, and more about the feeling they hold — sun on skin, glass in hand, and the quiet luxury of time slowing down.