Oil on canvas. Ready to hang unframed. 50cm x 60cm.
My studio window opens directly onto a garden with a 25-year old tree whose roots would be under my feet as I paint. The cottage garden has a mini bird bath which attracts small birds including fairy wrens, who know that the bigger birds don't come here. They sing while I work, splash in the bath, and flit among the branches right in front of me, as I mix paint.
The Hollows collection begins with them. As a celebration of Spring, I wanted also to honour the wattle that is so abundant around my home town of Canberra at this time of year. What's not to love about plump litlte birds and millions of tufts of sunshine-yellow!
Australian fairy wrens build small, dome-shaped nests in thick, low shrubs or grasses, usually less than a metre from the ground, using loosely woven soft grasses and spider webs and lining them with feathers or fine grass. These nests have a side entrance for the bird to enter and exit.
Oil on canvas. Ready to hang unframed. 50cm x 60cm.
My studio window opens directly onto a garden with a 25-year old tree whose roots would be under my feet as I paint. The cottage garden has a mini bird bath which attracts small birds including fairy wrens, who know that the bigger birds don't come here. They sing while I work, splash in the bath, and flit among the branches right in front of me, as I mix paint.
The Hollows collection begins with them. As a celebration of Spring, I wanted also to honour the wattle that is so abundant around my home town of Canberra at this time of year. What's not to love about plump litlte birds and millions of tufts of sunshine-yellow!
Australian fairy wrens build small, dome-shaped nests in thick, low shrubs or grasses, usually less than a metre from the ground, using loosely woven soft grasses and spider webs and lining them with feathers or fine grass. These nests have a side entrance for the bird to enter and exit.
