Gallery 2
Threatened Species
As a supporter of the Threatened Species Network of the Northern Territory it was sad to see it un-funded when we are quietly losing our mammal species at an alarming rate. Their decline is linked to the increasing frequency of fires, most of them deliberately lit.
Threatened Species Alphabet
Peoples Choice Award 2005 - used as the TSN poster
Collaged watercolours
Rock Wallaby
Watercolour (private collection in UK)
65 x 85cm
Please do not disturb
Tidying up and burning off destroy this small marsupial's refuge...
Pastel (private collection)
55 x 68cm
Gove Crow
A butterfly so rare I have never seen it
Watercolour
50 x 65cm
Palm Valley
Havens of ancient plant life, dependant on ground water. You can hear drilling.
Watercolour
65x 85cm
Last of her kind
A Neothylacine contemplates her future...
Oil on canvas
Open Verdict
How did this Tawny Frogmouth meet his end - a cane toad perhaps (Cane toads reached the Northern Territory only recently, I don't know their full impact, but in this area have certainly resulted in the loss of most larger reptiles and some birds)
Page from a nature notebook
Northern Pobblebonk - or Lymnodynastes convexiusculus
Overall winner, TSN Art Show 2009
A notebook with entries spanning 15 years in Humpty Doo, including most of the native frogs from this area and some creatures no longer seen here....
