Pastel Painting: A tawny frogmouth
Mostly we photograph tawny frogmouths during the day, perched on a dead branch with their eyes closed, pretending to be a stick. We found...
Pastel Painting: Young lyrebirds
In Wollemi National Park we woke up every morning to the sound of male lyrebirds performing their repertoires on the other side of the...
Pastel Painting: Blue wren on a twig
Sometimes things come together perfectly, the bird lands in the right spot with a good active pose so that you can see its face, the...
Family history: Lawries at Halton
I have put a map along with aspects of the history of Halton in the Family History section of this website but I have had a few comments...
Pastel Painting: Crimson rosellas
We are very lucky in Australia to have a number of brightly coloured parrots, like the very common crimson rosella. It was the white...
Pastel Painting: Ringtail possum
Different possums seem to dominate the areas around different campsites, and at Junction Pools in Barrington Tops National Park ringtail...
Pastel Painting: Leaden flycatcher
One thing that can be said about our Australian bush is that it is almost never tidy and I like my paintings to reflect this messiness....
Pastel Painting: Tree martins at Barrington Tops
A flutter of tree martins landing on ashes left in an abandoned campsite, was the inspiration for this painting. (I wrote a blog post...
Pastel Painting: Firetails
I have an unwritten personal rule that every camping trip has to result in at least one painting in order to justify the expense of my...
Wildlife Matters: Those wretched magpies
When I was a small child I had to walk by myself about a mile along a country road to get to school. "It's not fair!" I blurted out, with...
