Australian Bird Art Posters: Regional Bird PostersNOW AVAILABLE:
My 4th, and latest, regional bird art poster. Released October 2022.
BIRDS OF LORD HOWE ISLAND - 55 species 72 x 51cm
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BIRDS OF SYDNEY - COAST and BUSHLAND - 170 species 50.7 x 71.6 cm
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BIRDS of the
BLUE MOUNTAINS - 109 species
43 x 62 cm
(includes a little extra white border around edge, so it is framable as an A2: 42 x 59.4cm)
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WOODLAND BIRDS of the CAPERTEE & WOLGAN VALLEYS
(& INNER CENTRAL WEST SLOPES of NSW)
- 121 species 84.5 x 30.8 cm
Images below:
Detail
How to purchase the posters:
Please contact Fiona
to safely purchase posters directly or for further
details and enquiries. I'm
contactable
by
email, post or mobile (0490 456 826). Please
be patient if a delay in reply. I am often away on field trips (usually
just a few days) to study my
subjects and can be uncontactable when birding in remote areas.
Posters are also available from a number of
retail outlets
in the Blue Mountains and Sydney areas.
Price: BIRDS OF LORD HOWE ISLAND - 72 x 51cm W x H
Unlaminated: $29 AUD + $12 p&p within Australia
Laminated: $39 AUD + $12 p&p within Australia
Price: BIRDS OF SYDNEY - COAST AND BUSHLAND - 50.7 x 71.6 cm W x H
Unlaminated: $29 AUD + $12 p&p within Australia
Laminated: $39 AUD + $12 p&p within Australia
Price: BIRDS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS 43 x 62 cm W x H
Unlaminated: $26AUD + $12 p&p within Australia
Laminated: $36AUD + $12 p&p within Australia
Price: WOODLAND BIRDS OF THE CAPERTEE & WOLGAN VALLEYS - A2 area, in a wide landscape format
84.5 x 30.8cm W x H
Unlaminated: $26 AUD + $12 p&p within Australia
Laminated: $36 AUD + $12 p&p within Australia
Postage & Packaging (Australia): Posters
will be posted in a protective poster tube with a "re-used" plastic bag
inner.
Please contact artist for overseas postage quotes.
NB: $12 postage covers 1 - 2 of any of my poster range (within Australia) ( = less than actual cost for P&P)
I'm
usaly able ot packand post straight away but please allow
approx 5 working
days for delivery after confirmation email from artist. Usually I
can pack and post straight away but parcel postage times can vary.
Details of the posters:
Available as:
Laminated or unlaminated
Unlaminated is best
for clarity of the very small bird details, or if you intend to custom frame or block mount later.
Laminated is easiest for quick display
straight to a wall or door. (Gloss laminated. Trimmed to edge)
Sizes: Laminated or unlaminated:
Birds of Lord Howe Island - 72 x 51cm Landscape
Birds of Sydney - 50.7 x 71.6 cm Portrait
Birds of the Blue Mountains - 43 x 62cm Portrait
Birds of the Capertee Valley - 84.5 x 30.8 cm = "Extra wide A2" Landscape
Printed by: Clickmedia Digital Printers P/L: Unit 3, 57 Regentville Rd
Penrith. Ph: 0247 22 9170
Canon 12 colour pigment ink printer. Archival 180gsm matt poster paper.
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Birds of Sydney - Coast & Bushland
Framed example
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Birds of the Blue Mountains
Framed example
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Hanging and care of posters:
Please note that unlaminated posters are rather delicate as
they are on a special layered/coated print paper for good reproduction. If they should ruckle, when creased accidentally, I find it
will come out when professionally mounted for framing.
It’s not good to store laminated posters tightly rolled for
long periods. It can make it harder to flatten them afterwards.
If having trouble flattening
posters: relax curled posters by loosely
reverse-rolling around the poster tube, securing with rubber bands
& leaving for a while (maybe a week or two), then weighting flat.
Laminated posters can be displayed by pinning to a wall or door, using poster rails, or mounting to a substrate.
Please
don’t leave unprotected posters in contact with
normal cardboards, such as postal tubes, for long periods. Acids in
the lignum of non-acid free cardboard can
leach out into the posters. When posting, I protect my posters
in re-used local newspaper bags to reduce single-use plastic waste.
Unlaminated posters have the finest reproduction details but unstretched paper will fluctuate with humidity. Glassed frames (with/without mats) offer the best protection
and clarity for unlaminated poster display. Other options include: dry mounting on foamcore, coreflute or PVC
blockmounting on wood
top and bottom slide-on
plastic poster rails or professional hanger sets
pinning to top and bottom flat
softwood strips. Please consult a professional framer, printer or camera shop for more advice and prices.
How
the posters were done:
An ambitious focus in the latter years of Fiona's art career....pulling
together 50 years of Australian bird, plant and natural history
study to create complex "ecosystem" bird posters.
4 regional posters completed so
far: each portraying from 55 to over 100 species on a single page. The
tiny portraits are rendered in intricate detail. Initially each pose is from the
artist's imagination, drawing on years of experience sketching and
studying birds and their habits in the field: allowing a more natural
and aesthetic flow to the elaborate compositions. However, the plumage details of each
species are also carefully cross-referenced from many sources to
capture an accurate and suitable representation of the bird's
character within the poster framework. An effort has been
made to depict each species, where practicable, in the ecological niche
they are most associated with. An imaginative composite of local
habitats and flora has been amalgamated by the artist to facilitate
this.
The
originals involve a very painstaking procedure. They are laboriously
and carefully hand-painted on watercolour paper but, before commencement, there is a lot of research and many,
many pre-drawings of each bird and also the entire composition...usually 30 plus drafts. Finally reproduced at
the same size as the original painting, each tiny pose is painted and
re-painted multiple times with the finest sable-hair brushes on heavy 600gsm
watercolour paper. Each poster has
taken many hundreds of hours work, over months or years, often long
hours
into the night in the studio.
After
digital scanning of the final artwork, the posters have been
printed locally (Clickmedia, Penrith) on high quality, specially-coated
printing paper to allow the fine details and accurate colours of
the small portraits to be still enjoyed in reproduction.
(Canon 12 colour pigment ink printer on archival 180gsm matt paper).
About the Birds of Lord Howe Island poster See illustration
above.
Lord Howe Island is a glorious World Heritage island,
600kms off Port Macquarie, that preserves a precious ark of unique
species and nesting seabirds.
3 field trips to the island, much research and
consultation with local and visiting bird experts, 1 year of
drafts-planning (30 full and partial drafts), almost 2 years of hand-painting,
then lots of Photoshop adjustments to tidy it all up so it can also be
reproduced at a larger scale if necessary. Locked in the studio during
Covid got me a long way! A very intensive art project this time.
See my News page or my open Facebook page Fiona Lumsden's Wildlife Art Page for creation/progress insights and the poster's raison d'etre.
About the Birds of Sydney - Coast and Bushland poster See illustration
above.
170 species in habitat, featuring iconic Sydney regional flora and a wealth of bird species
from this very rich and rewarding, but often undervalued, area for birdwatchers and nature lovers.
7 years in the making, in total, (the longest so far, but I was also very busy with mulitple solo art exhibitions in that period) this very time-intensive poster was finally released at the beginning of December 2016.
2 years
in the draft and research stage, brush was first applied to
the heavy
watercolour paper in October 2011. All hand-painted
and hand-numbered on one sheet of 600 gsm cotton paper, each pose
was initially from the artist's imagination to enable an aesthetic flow
to a very elaborate composition. Each bird species was then carefully
checked (often with 6 books open at once) to ensure an accurate but
artistic interpretation of the many bird species that Sydney is still
lucky to have. Over 40 years of birdwatching experience in the field was of
course a help, but brushing up on seabirds meant pelagic seabirding
trips to the edge of the continental shelf (and several "lost lunches"
over the side due to sea sickness!).
Choice
of species to depict was tricky. Birds are, of course, rather mobile
creatures and populations change with time. Unfortunately, there are
species
now so regionally rare that they had to be left off. The artist
hopes this trend doesn't continue. On the other hand, new species have
moved in. I haven't put on "man-introduced" species on the poster. Partly
I ran out of room, partly I wanted this "show-poster" to be a natural
amalgamation of our beautiful and unique natural species and habitats.
I hope, through introducing people to the amazing birds around them,
that I can encourage people to get out and enjoy (and fight to
preserve) the
remaining, sometimes degrading, patches of bush around the city.
Fortunately, we do have some wonderful National Parks and reserves in
the rougher sandstone country around Sydney, but birds need
connectivity and a variety of habitats to prosper.
Habitats
shown include: Smooth Angophora (Sydney Red Gum) bushland, Sydney Blue
Gum forest, Cabbage-tree Palm and Lilly-pilly rainforest, heathland,
mangrove, freshwater lake, shore, sea cliffs and harbour. Many iconic
Sydney plants (large and small) are shown. Also sneaking in are some
mammals, reptiles, frogs, insects and marine life. Even fungi.
Enjoy and explore!
About the Birds of the
Blue
Mountains poster See illustration
above.
A 2 1/2 year project to complete. Showcasing 109 species from the
beautiful and rugged Blue Mountains, west of Sydney NSW. A World
Heritage listed area. The Blue
Mountains
is a large plateau
area dissected by spectacular sandstone cliffs and deep gorges carpeted
by
vast and diverse eucalypt forests with small pockets of warm-temperate
rainforest
and heathland. A ribbon of small mountain towns follows the ridgelines
of the Great Western Highway and Bell's Line of Road across the Blue
Mountains and are surrounded by rugged National Parks to the north and
south, scenic reserves, lookouts and many fine bushwalks. A terrific
area for
birdwatching and for connecting with nature.
The Blue Mountains birds poster depicts most of the common,
and some rarer but special, bushland bird species of the area (except
most of the urban, introduced and waterbird species. These are generally
uncommon, overall, in this area). The background features small
representations of the habitats of the area: sandstone clifflines, wet
and dry sclerophyll bushland, heathland, rainforest, mountain streams
and birds of the air above. Plant species depicted include
Eucalyptus oreades and piperita, Mountain Devil, Saw Banksia, Waratah,
Coachwood, Grass tree and Blueberry Ash. Secreted within the
composition are various small mammals, reptiles and insects.
About
the
Woodland Birds of the Capertee & Wolgan Valleys (and inner Central West slopes) poster See
illustration
above.
The first poster project for the artist. An almost accidental project:
the design just "grew" sideways from the cluster of finches on the far
left. Add a fence, a strip of mountains and a mix of rural and woodland
habitats and hey presto, 6 months later, a framework to showcase 121
species of the Capertee Valley.
The
Capertee Valley is a special birdwatching area known
nationally and internationally as a haven for rare and declining
Australian woodland birds. It is located on the western edge of the
Blue Mountains (off the Mudgee Road) encompassing the hamlets of Glen
Davis and Glen Alice. A gloriously scenic valley, it is surrounded on all
sides by spectacular cliffs and the Wollemi and Gardens of Stone
National Parks. A diversity of habitats has resulted in a proliferation
of bird species finding refuge in this large valley/canyon. The rainshadow effect of the canyon walls has created a
cusp
zone where the forests of the Blue Mountains give way to woodlands
more typical of the western slopes. Vegetation varies from rainforest to
Ironbark/Box/Cypress Pine woodlands, and farmlands. Not as heavily
cleared as many other rural areas, diverse woodland bird species, whose
populations have fallen alarmingly elsewhere, remain relatively common
and easily seen here.
I've recently done a small update on the original poster
(which was
just for the Capertee Valley) to bring the bird names up to date and to
make it obvious that the poster is also usable for a wider region. I
also hope to draw attention re the declining woodland birds in our
region to a wider audience. The
lovely Wolgan Valley is a sister adjoining valley just to the east of
the Capertee and worthy of a visit. In fact you can walk over the
intervening ridge along the
Pipeline Track (a big walk!) to the Wolgan. The 2 valleys share a fair
few birds. A lot of the bird choices on the poster will also be
suitable for
any good woodland patches that still exist on the inner Central West
Slopes - west to about Orange and Cowra. Bird species will dip in and
out
with greater distance and differing habitat type. Many woodland birds
are sadly
disappearing from the small and degraded "islands" of woodland,
now isolated within farmland -
these small patches are all that is left of the once vast box-gum woodlands west of the Divide.
Very little temperate woodland, on
good soils, has been protected from clearing or grazing. However a fair
few of the open
country birds on the poster, that have managed to adapt to agricultural
change, are quite widespread still.
A prime conservation focus in the Capertee Valley, over many years, has been tree plantings for the highly
endangered and beautiful Regent
Honeyeater. Since 1994, a collaboration between
landholders, conservation bodies and many volunteers has led to
extensive habitat restoration with the replanting of many thousands of
native trees. Bi-annual tree-planting weekends are held in the Capertee
each spring and autumn. New volunteer tree-planters are always welcome,
no experience necessary.
Contact for
further
information on volunteer tree-plantings in the Caperteee Valley:
Birdlife Discovery Centre
Newington Armory, 1 Jamieson Street
Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127
Tel: 02 9647 1033 Fax: 02 9647 2030Email: southernnsw@birdlife.org.au Website: birdlife.org.au
Please report
all sightings of the nomadic, critically endangered Regent
Honeyeater to Birdlife Australia. (Note if the bird has coloured leg rings
including
order & which leg.)
Regent Honeyeater Recovery Program Coordinator: Mick Roderick
All images
are the
property of the artist and are protected by copyright.
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