The Wildlife Alliance

March 3, 2011

I’m happy to announce that 10% of all Lilly Beck Art sales will now be donated to the Wildlife Alliance. This includes purchases of Lilly Beck Art prints, posters and greeting cards sold via Redbubble. I’m thoroughly impressed with this organisation and their approach to the awsome work that they do.  Their Mission and Strategy takes [...]

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Waterhens and Surprised Wood Ducks!

January 18, 2011

We took a quick trip down to our little lake this morning to get some better shots of the water on a sunlit day for my latest painting. I often work from my imagination for the settings in my paintings, though for some reason, I’ve been undecided as to which way to jump with this [...]

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Natural Inspiration

November 27, 2010

Before I begin a new wildlife painting I like to play around with lots of sketches of my subject first. It helps me to have lots of reference photo’s so I can get a feel for how a creature moves. Painting animals that I’ve observed often and have fond memories of also helps. There’s much [...]

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Twitter Art Exhibit

November 9, 2010

“Dragonfly Landing” is a postcard sized piece being mailed to Moss, Norway for a fundraising event as organised by David Sandum. David’s plan is to have 140 artists donate their work to raise funds for the local library that has had its funding for new children’s books cut. %100 of monies raised will go to [...]

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Into the Blue

November 9, 2010

Choosing a subject for this piece was an internal battle – would I paint something I knew well, or would I take the challenge that was tickling my sense of adventure? Choosing a comfort zone topic would make sense since I wanted to enter this next piece into our local art awards. Time, for me, [...]

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“Bird’s Eye View”

August 6, 2010

This is my latest piece. I have to say, I had a ball painting this one. It feels like, after nearly six years of painting again, a large piece of the puzzle has clicked into place. I was more confident working on this one and I think that comes through in the work. I wanted [...]

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An Informal Education

January 29, 2010

From the outset, I was quite deliberate about my decision not to gain a formal education in art. I wanted to learn in an informal way, gaining my confidence and finding my own style, through experience and experimentation. I prefer, however, to use the term informally educated rather than self taught to describe how I’ve [...]

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White Lipped Tree Frog

January 7, 2010

The world’s largest tree frog is quite the character. With his large white rimmed mouth looking like it’s set in a grin you can find him clinging to watery reeds or tree branches, or, your bathroom window! Set amongst the bottlebrushes for this piece to give contrast to his beautiful greens.

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Jabiru Jill

December 10, 2009

This piece is about the tranquillity of the bird against the backdrop of Yellow Waters Billabong. Here the Jabiru resides, stately and calm; sharing the billabong with crocodiles, amongst the gorgeous lilies. The air is thick and heavy with humidity. The dark feathers of the Jabiru shimmering with all their stunning colour, as she wades [...]

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Sales Enquiries

November 2, 2009

My original acrylic pieces are all completed on quality canvas, made ready to hang in your home or workplace. I use high quality acrylic paints that are pigment rich and finish each artwork in a satin varnish to protect the surface from dust adhesion. Each purchased artwork will be carefully packaged for safe delivery to [...]

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