Spoonbill Tree (not yet available, plz contact)
The Spoonbill Tree. 2026. New Zealand spoonbill. Original painting.
The fabulous leggy, beaky royal NZ spoonbill, and life on the estuary.
There is indeed a tree of spoonbills on the inlet at Motueka. These birds are funny and beautiful and super clever, and I wanted to paint them in their beloved, manky, half-dead pine tree.
Over the years, guana (poop) isn't very good for the tree, and the salt water probably isn't either. So I depicted this one with no foliage, which is an artistic simplification of the tree that's really there.
I adore painting shore birds, capturing the essence of an ordinary day on the Inlet, with the wildlife, the tides and the light all working in nature's harmony.
Details:
size: 430mm w x 595mm tall, oil on board in a really nice hand made timber frame.
shipping: The art will be carefully packaged for tracked courier. Collectors outside NZ or Australia, please use the contact page instead of the cart.