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Bird Watching

$850.00

Bird Watching is a vibrant, layered painting that celebrates curiosity, vitality, and the joy of looking closely. Bold colour, strong contrast, and rhythmic mark-making create a lively surface where bird forms emerge confidently among abstract shapes and pathways.

This is a joyful, energetic work — full of movement, personality, and visual discovery.

Living with this painting

  • A strong, expressive palette that brings warmth and energy into a space

  • Works well as a statement piece in living areas or hallways

  • Layered marks and recognisable bird forms invite repeated viewing

  • A one-of-a-kind original, created in my Kapiti Coast garden studio

Bird Watching is a vibrant, layered painting that celebrates curiosity, vitality, and the joy of looking closely. Bold colour, strong contrast, and rhythmic mark-making create a lively surface where bird forms emerge confidently among abstract shapes and pathways.

This is a joyful, energetic work — full of movement, personality, and visual discovery.

Living with this painting

  • A strong, expressive palette that brings warmth and energy into a space

  • Works well as a statement piece in living areas or hallways

  • Layered marks and recognisable bird forms invite repeated viewing

  • A one-of-a-kind original, created in my Kapiti Coast garden studio

The story behind the painting

Bird Watching was inspired by a remarkable woman I know — vibrant, curious, playful, and very much engaged with life at the age of 94. The painting began as a response to ideas about ageing that felt limiting or dismissive, and instead celebrates experience, energy, and continued curiosity.

Words were written into the early layers of the canvas and finally a few were unobtrusively woven into the top layer— challenging stereotypes and affirming qualities such as experience, being active, and wise. The early foundations were then built over with paint: bold blocks of colour, repeated marks, drips, and pathways that echo both garden spaces and the movement of birds through them.

The birds appear as confident silhouettes — not hidden, but actively present — suggesting alertness, observation, and engagement with the world. Rather than depicting a single scene, the painting reflects the richness of a life lived fully, with layers of meaning that reveal themselves over time.

Additional Information (accordion / separate section)

  • Medium: Acrylic on canvas

  • Size: 91cm*61cm

  • Finish: Painting extends around the sides of the canvas

  • Hanging: Ready to hang

  • Signed: Yes, signed on the back of the painting

  • Shipping: Carefully packaged and shipped from the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand


    If this painting resonates with you, I’d love it to find a home where its colour, energy, and sense of curiosity can be enjoyed every day.