Medium - Oil on Canvas
Size - 45 x 60 cm
Finalist in “The Holmes Prize for Realistic Bird Art” 2025
Size: 76 x 76 cm
Medium: Oil on Canvas
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“Stop The Antics and Pay Attention!” Kookaburras
Size: 90 x 45.5cm
Medium: Oil on Canvas
SOLD (Limited Edition prints available)
First Prize in the Holmes Price for Excellence in Realistic Australian Bird Art 2023 – QLD
Young Kookaburras visit my home in Olinda, Victoria, every year. They become very bold quite quickly. I soon get to know who is who. Some are cheekier than others. I love having them around and watching their funny ways. Lots of stretching, flapping of wings, fluffing of feathers and resting in peculiar ways, flat out on the branches, while they observe the world around them. Their parents are never too far away. In this artwork, I wanted to capture some of these amusing moments.
‘Together’ – Spotted Pardalotes
30.5 x 30.5 cm
Oil on Canvas
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Reference is from Olinda in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria. Australia
Major Mitchell Cockatoo
Size: 40.5 x 30.5 cm
Medium: Oil on Linen
Commission
Print available
The Nest Behind Me – Female Superb Lyrebird
Medium - Oil on Board
Size - 60 x 45 cm
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Badger Weir, Healesville, Victoria (in Wurrundjeri Country), with it’s ancient fern gullies, and Mountain Ash trees, is one of the most beautiful natural places in Victoria. I was walking along Lyrebird Track towards the old weir when I saw a female Superb Lyrebird. She was walking gently about in the water and I remember thinking she was pretty relaxed about being close to a human. Then, after about five minutes, I heard a noise behind me at about head height in the embankment. There was the nest with her baby in it. Wow! But I moved on quickly.
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos
Size: 75 x 50
Medium: Oil on canvas
Commission
These Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos frequent our garden, in Olinda, Vic
at certain times of the year, when the right trees are fruiting. Sometimes
you don’t even know they are there until you hear bits and pieces dropping
from the trees. They stay for a while until one calls out its’ mystical shriek,
and then they are gone.
Spotted Pardalotes
Size:- 40 x 30 cm
Medium:– Oil on Board
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‘Lucky Encounter’
On one of my walks one day, in the Dandenong Ranges, I noticed some fluttering birds in the
distance in the embankment beside the road. I saw flashes of an orange colour and then, moving closer still, I saw spots on these beautiful little birds. Being careful not to disturb them,
I sat close by and watched them fussing about a hole in the embankment where they were preparing their nest.
‘Sweetie’ Scaly Breasted Lorikeet
Size: 25 x 35 cm
Medium: Oil on Linen
Commission
Sweetie is a rescued Scaly Breasted Lorikeet who has since been set free fit and well.
‘Oh! Hello!’ Superb Fairy Wrens
Medium: Mixed (Acrylic paint, watercolour and pencil)
Size: 42 x 19 cm
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Weringerong – Superb Lyrebird
Commission
Size: 62 x 42 cm
Media: Mixed – Acrylic Paint, Watercolour Paint and pencil on illustration board.
Weringerong is one of the aboriginal names for the Lyrebird. In aboriginal culture the Lyrebird is the peacemaker of the forest.
Noisy Pitta 'The Green Keeper'
40 x 32.5 cm
Oil on Linen Board
Commission
Bird Reference - photo by Catherine Pillans
Found on the Australian east coast from northern Qld to southern NSW in rainforest and sometimes adjacent sclerophyll forest. They forage on the ground for food.
Rose robin
Oil on Linen Board - 40 x 32.5cm
Commission
Bird reference - photo by Catherine Pillans
The Rose Robin (Petroica rose) 11-13 cm long
can be found along the coast from Queensland to south eastern South Australia and east or south of the Great Dividing Range. It breeds in sclerophyll forest amongst the dense mid story and most of them move to dryer lowland woodlands and open forest woodland in winter.
Orange Bellied Parrots
Medium: Oil on Linen
Size: 50 x 45 cm
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Spring – Superb Fairy Wrens
36 x 25cm
Oil on Linen
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‘Whisper of Gold’ Golden Whistlers
72 x 46cm
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Hello Yellow - Eastern Yellow Robin
Coloured Pencil and Watercolour on Illustration Board A4 (21 x 29.7cm approx.)
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Rufous Fantails
Medium: Coloured Pencil on Illustration Board.
Size: 43 x 34.6
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Prints available
These birds were flitting around in my front yard. Quickly, I ran inside to get my camera. I could hear their tinkling notes but could not see them. Suddenly there they were, very close and how lucky I was to get some photos?
The Rufous Fantail is a member of the flycatcher family. It is a migratory bird and found in northern and eastern Australia in the understory of rainforests, dense eucalypt forests and mangroves. The more northern birds tend to stay in the north. It is about 15 to 18 cm long. It constantly wags its fanned tail from side to side and hops and twists its body. It hops along branches and up trunks of trees. With its constant movement, it flushes insects from their cover and quickly flitters out to snatch them.
Superb Lyrebird and Wrens
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100 x 80cm
Christmas Pudding - Gang Gangs
Mixed Medium
Size: 31 x 50 cm
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Whimsical, clever and beautiful Gang Gangs
Yongergnow Malleefowl
Original painting size: 107 x 62 cm
Medium: Oil, Texture Gel on Stretched Linen
A few years ago, while researching the South-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo in south-west Victoria, (south-east South Australia and south-west Victoria), my interest was reignited in another bird that lived in the area. I returned to the Little Desert to learn more about them and find reference material recently. Although I didn't see any of the birds, I was taken to one of their amazing incubator mounds. They are another fascinating and clever ‘Megapode’
Still needing to find reference material I travelled to Yongernow Malleefowl Centre in Ongerup WA. These birds are difficult to see in the wild, when you are looking for them, so this was an ideal place to get the reference material needed.
Australian Ringneck Parrots
There are four subspecies of the Australian Ringneck Parrot with different colour variations.
These birds were found in southwest Western Australia and are also Called the Port Lincoln Parrot, subspecies zonarius.
Size: 71cm x 56 cm (27x22inch)
Medium: Oil on Linen
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Major Mitchell Cockatoos
28 x 22 inch Oil on Linen.
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Gang Gang on the Forest Floor
Mixed media.
Original size 31.5 x 20cm
SOLD - Prints available.
Late Afternoon Rail Crossing
Buff Banded Rails
Mixed media on 51 x 24cm Aquarel Board.
FOR SALE
Buff Banded Rails are widespread across the east coast of the Australian mainland, Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands, SE Asia, NZ & New Guinea.
Commonly found in terrestrial wetlands, coastal beaches, reef flats, sandbanks & mangroves.
The Gang Gangs
Commonly found in NSW, Vic, Kangaroo Island & South Australia.
Mixed media.
Original size 39 x 29cm
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Golden Whistler
16 x 10 inch Oil on canvas
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Tawny Frogmouths
First in a series of small artworks.
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Mixed Media 97 x 57 cm
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Kookaburras Three
50 x 35 cm
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Incoming - Eastern Yellow Robins
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40 x 61.5cm
Mixed Media
Prints available
Summer Morning in Olinda
24 x 36 inch Oil on canvas
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Gilceé prints also available.
Superb Lyrebird and Chick
Size A2
Prints available
Australian King Parrots
39 x 62 cm
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Prints available
Superb Lyrebird
Healesville,Victoria
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Female Lyrebird
Size A2
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Australian Kookaburras
Mixed Media
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The Wild Ones
Rainbows and Red Collared Lorikeets
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Limited Edition Print available
'Dancing In The Park' Superb Lyrebirds - Badger Weir
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Limited Edition Prints available
Helmeted Honey Eater
A4
Prints available
Crimson Rosellas
46 x 50 cm Mixed Media
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Currently on display at the Wise Possum Gallery, Sassafras. Victoria Australia
Prints available
Mountain Ash with Eastern Rosella
19 x 20 cm
For Sale
Prints are available
Superb Lyrebird and Superb Fairy Wrens
100 x 80cm Oil On Canvas
For Sale
Prints available
Gus and Friends
Kookaburras
46cm x 34cm or 18" x 13.5"
For Sale
Limited Edition Prints
99 Signed and Numbered
Souvenir Editions Available (A4 & A3 approx)
New Holland Honey Eaters
31.5cm x 44cm Mixed Media
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Musk Lorikeets
42cm x 47cm
Mixed Media
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Prints available
Tawny Frog Mouth Family
Image size 43.5 x 34.5cm Mixed Media
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Superb Lyrebird (Male)
Size A4 Graphite on Bamboo Paper
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Precious Places - SE Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos
South West Victoria/South Eastern South Australia
1 meter x 1.5 meters Oil on Canvas
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Winner of the 'Silver Medal Award' in the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia Inc.-
Wild Awards 2008 exhibition at Montsalvat in Victoria
Limited Edition Prints available
South Eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoos
61cm x 84 cm or 24" x 33.1"
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Endangered - There are five sub-species of Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo. The South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne) is only found in south-east South Australia and south-west Victoria.
There is an estimated population of only 800 - 1000 birds.
To find out more about these birds and how you can help go to http://redtail.com.au .
Winner of the 'Gold Medal Award' in the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia Inc.-
Wild Awards 2006 exhibition at Montsalvat in Victoria
Limited Edition Prints available
Superb View - Superb Lyrebird
Size 36cm (14") x 56cm (22")
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These unique birds are elusive and their coloring appears dull at a quick glance. If you have time to watch them you will become fascinated with their life and their beauty. Their coloring is not dull at all, in fact the rich color effects in certain lights are beautiful. They are skilled mimics. Not only can they mimic the sounds and birds of the bush but if they are exposed to other noises they can skillfully copy them as well.
The Superb Lyrebird inhabits temperate and subtropical rainforests from Southern Queensland to Victoria. The male performs a beautiful courtship ritual on his specially constructed mound of earth, spreading his impressive tail over his head as he sings his beautiful series of whistles, clicks and clucks and of mimicry
Prints available