Cup Shaped Nest 2025
Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton rag paper
Paper size 80cm x 56cm
Private Collection
In the piece featuring the local critically endangered regent honeyeater, one of it’s three nesting sites is in the Capertee Valley, fires, habitat loss and nest predation are it’s greatest threats. They make a ‘cup shaped nest’ in a tree fork so I have placed the regent honeyeater at the centre of the painting in a ‘teacup shaped nest’. With fewer than three hundred left in the wild this is a bird we hear more about, than we actually see or hear
Painted as part of my contribution to the A Nest in the Hills: The Symbiosis of Women and Birds in Contemporary Australian Art at Mudgee Arts Precinct December 2025 to March 2026.