Helen Mackay | artist and printmaker
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This is from my veranda. Such magnificent birds. But they do eat my house.
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The Black-faced Monarch. It is a little bird and common but I have only seen one
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These are some of the printed plates of the Little Penguin
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This is another Little Penguin plate during the aquatint process. 
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These seagulls are painted on plywood. 
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Cockatoo
This is an etching and aquatint on copper and then printed. 
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At my feet. Sugar lift and aquatint
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Little Penguin detail. Fragments of the whole image
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This is one of the Little Penguin plates  during the aquatint process being etched in the acid. 
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Nestle - the absolute softness of the head amongst the feathers. Oil on ply
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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.
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I hide my face
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On the beach
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From this angle I see the sky
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Seagull
The cockatoo and the magpie  are etchings and aquatints done on copper. 
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Away from you Edition of 8
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Under my wing
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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. 
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A fine balance
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Crested tern
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Seagull
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The water's edge
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