The battenburg cake on a battenburg doily with a fabulous Lady Carlisle teaset and eastern yellow robin… just because… Eastern Yellow Robin and Battenburg 2019 Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton rag paper Paper size 50cm round Available through Michael Reid Murrurundi
Project Type: Watercolours
Singing the Blues 2019
This was my very first foray into the world of the large painting! Working on a sheet of paper which was over a metre tall had it’s challenges. I had to organise a new drawing board for my painting desk, which also meant I had to remove furniture out of the room to accommodate the […]
Gold Flock Robin 2019
Referencing the Chinese restaurants of my youth I envisaged this as the Honey Chicken of all my paintings. With the flocked wallpaper and over the top gold and red decor, this oversize painting of a ginger jar was one of my first attempts to go big or go home. It was intended to be a […]
Rose Breasted Cockatoo (AKA Galah) 2019
This is an alternate and rather obscure name for our lovely pink friends… the galah. As they are residents where we live and one of my favourite birds, I do seem to feature them a lot in my paintings. I just can’t help myself. When I have access to such good models who are happy […]
Gouldian Finches 2019
These Gouldian Finches are perfect combined with these Geraldton wax flowers and Chinese gourd shaped vase. This painting was in my solo show at Milk Factory Gallery Gouldian Finches Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton paper Paper size 45cm x 31cm Private Collection
King Fisher 2019
Of course this adorable sacred kingfisher would pick this amazing Royal Historic Palaces tea set on which to perch! After all, it is a perch fit for a king… or queen! King Fisher Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton paper Paper size 45cm x 31cm Available through Milk Factory Gallery
Life Imitates Art 2019
This antique blue and white Chinese ginger jar featuring all manner of flying birds and insects is paired, by me, with our local birds and butterflies and even a dragonfly. Life Imitates Art Watercolour on handmade 100% cotton paper Paper size 62cm x 46cm Available through Milk Factory Gallery
Wren High Tea 2019
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
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