This series of cameo pieces is based on the elements: Fire, Earth, Water and Air.
Each collection is made up of 12 paintings. Fire is complete and Earth is in progress. Each month a Giving Voice original will be revealed until the series is complete.
As are all the paintings, this collection is reproduced as fine art prints. Go to Collectibles if you are curious to know more.
Assumed extinct until a sighting in 1979, the Night Parrot remains Australia’s most critically endangered species.
A mother wombat gazes down at her pouch to see a crowning planet Earth. Intrinsically linked to Earth, both above and below, she knows, without question, that she is a part of nature. As are we.
Playful activites patiently wait for an epiphany.
The first collection of twelve paintings in the Elements series is based on Fire. Giving Voice raised money for wildlife carers during the Black Summer bushfires that burned 5.4 million hectares creating devastating loss in biodiversity.
Known for a love of hot chips, this gull is so incensed by the careless disposal of a burning butt that it is prepared to stamp it out with his delicate webs.
The spines of the echidna are an effective armour. As embers fall they ignite the spines and the echidna curls up protecting soft tissue. In the aftermath her flaccid tongue reaches out to an expired ant.
A joey losing his grip on reality.
Yesterday’s News was painted when the gravity of the Corona Virus epidemic hijacked newspaper headlines, averting our attention away from the catastrophic fires. A forlorn koala perches foetal-like on a copy of the Financial Review. Capitalism now a casualty of a different cataclysm. When we wake from the induced coma which of the two will we prioritise, which will sustain us in perpetuity?
A cicada expires on a high note.
A platypus stares directly into our eyes as its aquatic habitat dries up
The wombat’s den is a safe place for species unable to escape fire. Like no man’s land in war, it is a place of truce where enemies bunker down together.
Wollum is the Bundjalung name for the Native Turkey. The painting is about listening to our First Nations People (their colours ablaze in the Brush Turkey’s feathers) and their stories of cold burning practice.
The black swan speaks into a firestick ‘mic’ and shares stories of the urgency to listen to our First Nations Peoples and their practice of cold burning land.
The endangered native freshwater fish, Galaxias Fontanus, gasp for air as ash leaches oxygen from the water
The Mother of all extinctions.
Frogs perform much respiration through their skin. A green tree frog perches on a precarious stem as smoke fills the air