This is from my veranda. Such magnificent birds. But they do eat my house.

Currawong - ink on paper

The Black-faced Monarch. It is a little bird and common but I have only seen one

These are some of the printed plates of the Little Penguin

This is another Little Penguin plate during the aquatint process. 

These seagulls are painted on plywood. 

Cockatoo

This is an etching and aquatint on copper and then printed. 

Currawong - ink on paper

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At my feet. Sugar lift and aquatint

Little Penguin detail. Fragments of the whole image

This is one of the Little Penguin plates  during the aquatint process being etched in the acid. 

Nestle - the absolute softness of the head amongst the feathers. Oil on ply

I see in colour

 Lithography is done by drawing on stone and then printing. It is a beautiful process and can be in colour but I love the black and white images, which lend themselves so well to seagulls, with their gleaming white feathers. These images are all lithographs and I print up to 10 prints from the stone.

I hide my face

On the beach

From this angle I see the sky

Seagull

The cockatoo and the magpie  are etchings and aquatints done on copper. 

Away from you Edition of 8

Under my wing

Rhapsody in black

These paintings are from a series of seagulls and terns that I see on the beach. I love the shapes that they make, the monochromatic palette and contrast against the backdrop of the sea and the sky. The top three are all painted on plywood. 

A fine balance

Crested tern

Seagull

The water's edge