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| SUE
KALAB Art of Australian Nature Watercolours – Paintings & Drawings |
Australian Nature has been Sue's genre since around 1981 when she went to live in Mallacoota on the south east corner of Australia, a village in Croajingolong National Park Victoria, for 12 years. During 1993-94 Sue lived and worked in the northwest of the continent, on an Aboriginal community in the eastern Pilbara - this was a different time and reality. In 1995 she established a studio in Bunbury. Sue has a special interest in native birds and bush orchids. My art responded to the beauty of Mallacoota images. One winter afternoon at Gabo Island, which is just offshore, we saw thousands and thousands of dolphins from the island to the horizon and filling the ocean as wide as you could see. Nautilus shells washed up on the coastline in autumn, and beachcombing was a treasure trove for my art. I was taken to observe a lyrebird make her nest, and subsequently painted this image. I was privileged to paint rare and lovely bush orchids, taken from their secret terrestrial homes by orchid experts who respectfully returned them when I had studied and illustrated them. These people included senior National Parks rangers, and a farmer friend who is renowned for his life-long interest in native orchids. I loved the reverence these people demonstrated towards nature, and I promised myself to continue their example. Bunbury is by the bush and beach in the south west of Australia. The Indian Ocean, black swans on the Leschenault Estuary, migratory wader-birds that visit annually from the Arctic Circle, the dolphins of Koombana Bay, Big Swamp birds, ancient Tuarts that characterize the coastal landscape, the 130 million year old Basalt Rocks, the nearby Jarrah forests and the myriad species of bird-life that visit my studio garden – all this gives my paintbrush plenty to respond to. Sue’s work (more than 700 paintings) is represented in collections in Australia and throughout the world. |
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