The Old Bird Creations
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
New Nursery Images
These images were specially designed for nursery prints. The patterns are original and I love the wolf and the otter. What is your favourite?
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Artist's Statement
Birds have always held a
fascination with me. Their speed, dexterity, songs, colours and beauty are nature’s art. The prim and proper Victorian era was punctuated with punk style steam power and fantastic inventions, which started the computer age, steam age and industrial age. By
combining the bold, greasy, grungy steam powered objects with the soft, light, colourful feathered bodies of birds, I cross over between the natural world and the
manmade world. By capturing them in digital images and paintings, I feel a sense of freedom.
Photographing birds in flight and using their outline as a starting point, I create birds with knives and swords for feathers, leather straps for chest plates and armour for their head. I
anthropomorphise the birds by adding shoes, hats or clothing. A high resolution scan is taken of the ‘steam-punked’ outline and imported into Photoshop. I create colourful backgrounds using photos of textures, art and natural surfaces.
My images are meant to intrigue, amuse and mystify people. By using bright colour palettes, I intend to attract the viewer,
and the bird’s ‘human’ accoutrements
hold the attention of the viewer and create a
sense of fun. By
blending backgrounds and textures
from a bygone era, the birds seem to belong to a world of their own.
The Old Bird Artist Bio
Student, teacher, mother,
grandmother, artist. As a chronic depressive,
with a mind that won’t stop thinking – I
seek solitude and silence.
Camping holidays and taking
photos while my husband
reads is a
way to keep calm. Capturing birds in the bush around
Coolendel is an ongoing fixation, which has led to trying to capture birds on the wing. Tiny flitting, birds
twittering sharply, beg me to capture them in still shots
through my lens. Their
free-flight is fascinating and
watching them is restful.
A passion for colours,
computers and cockatoos melded
into bird images, photography
and painting. A
love of learning has led me to expand my love of art, and a need to expand my teaching
skills has guided my
decision to study. Being
surrounded with creative people has become addictive
and learning is an
integral part of my past, present and future.
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
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