Sue Kalab Artist
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My Endeavour

     On a wider scope my art intertwines effortlessly with my environmental activity.
I've been an environmental volunteer for over 35 years.  ​Those who know me best know this. This has been my promise to myself.
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   Settling on painting Nature a long time ago, I recognized the complexity, the beauty and the abstract ideas that Nature presents.   My art came to be about the Tree of Life - wild birds, native orchids, nests, banksias, shells and eucalypt trees - and engaging audiences with Nature.

   I realized though, that Nature is defenceless against the tide of development and progress. ​
     Sometimes I'd like to go to a parallel universe where our beautiful, incredible Nature is loved and revered, where Nature is a saint, and treated as such.
     
      Many know me as a conservationist.  It's been my promise, my dedication, to speak out for Nature however I can.  Sometimes it's writing essays and submissions, or planting, or surveying birds or botany, or painting, or showing people a bird or teaching about trees, something they've not known before.  I love to ignite people's sense of wonder. 

     I've discovered along the way I can be me - an artist, an anarchist and an activist with a woman's perspective, and now that of an older woman.  It is holistic, and my endeavour.
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