Superb Fairy Wrens and Bunnykins Crockery = A Match Made In Heaven. This painting was in my solo show at Milk Factory Gallery Available as a limited edition fine art print through my online store Wren High Tea Watercolour on Handmade 100% Cotton Paper Paper size 62cm x 46cm Private Collection
Project Type: Birds
How’s This For a Lark? 2019
Of course a magpie lark and a magpie had to feature in a painting together… how could I resist? Mum used to refer to magpie larks as peewees when I was a child, hence the magpie hold a peewee marble in his beak… obscure I know, but that is how I am… This painting was […]
Odile 2019
Odile refers to the black swan out of Swan Lake the ballet by Tchaikovsky. The vase she is so elegantly perched upon (as only the most famous bad girl in ballet can do) is a French Empire swan urn, which features, not one, but two of her good nemesis… Odette! And anyone who has come […]
Banksii and Banksia 2019
This female red tailed black cockatoo or Calyptorhynchus banksii likes handing around on the similarly named coastal banksia which is displayed in a Chinese famille jaune (meaning yellow ground) vase. This painting was in my Ginger and Honey Exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney. Banksii and Banksia Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton paper Paper size 80cm x […]
The Nectar Collectors 2018
These two red wattlebirds drinking from a banksia menziesii also known as a firewood banksia which is placed in a Edme Samson French Porcelain vase. This painting featured in my Ginger and Honey Exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney. The Nectar Collectors Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton paper Paper size 80cm x 57cm Private Collection
Fan Dance 2018
This Qianlong period famille rose vase of naked lady lillies features a pair of dancing grey fantails, provocatively using their beautiful fan tails to reinterpret this cheeky burlesque dance… get it… fan dance, naked ladies… sorry not sorry… I do like my visual puns. This painting was in my Ginger and Honey Exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney. Fan Dance […]
Garden of Delights: Grevillea 2018
This painting makes me happy, the colourful grevillea in the bright and cheerful Charles Catteau Boch Freres Keramis vase, even the white naped honeyeater with her stylish orange eyeshadow. Sometimes paintings are just like that. This painting was in my Garden and Honey Exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney Garden of Delights: Grevillea Watercolour on handmade 100% […]
Garden of Delights: Flannel Flower 2018
My absolute favourite Australian native flower… in fact, just my favourite flower in general! It is like a cosy hug, with it’s soft fuzzy petals and centre, in a soft cream with hints of sage green at the tips… what is not too love! I have combined them with a rather unappreciated honeyeater. Not particularly […]
Tea-tering Double Barred Finch 2018
With their blue beak and feet, I love pairing double barred finches with blue and white china. This is the ultimate in blue and white china, with actual teacup designs and tea paraphernalia. This painting featured in my Ginger and Honey Exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney Tea-tering Double Barred Finch Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton paper Paper […]
Tea-tering Superb Wrens 2018
A mix of all different vintage tea cups and paraphernalia combined with a family of superb blue wrens. These teacup ring paintings are so much fun to paint and wrens are such fun loving birds, this is, to me just a cheerful painting. This painting was in my Ginger and Honey Exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney […]
Tea-tering Gouldian Finches 2018
Well, you can’t get any more colourful than gouldian finches, so it was fun to look for all sorts of tea cups to go with them. It was a challenge to see how bright and cheerful I could make this painting. This was a part of my Ginger and Honey exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney Tea-tearing Gouldian […]
Camouflage 2018
Referencing the wallpaper I grew up with and the flying ducks which were so popular in households in the 1970s, I have a soft spot for this painting featuring grey teals in formation. This painting made it’s debut at the Huntington Estate Music Festival Art Exhibition. Camouflage Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton paper Paper size 57cm […]