Art Auction
The Canberra Forest Alliance and Conservation Council ACT Region invite you to a forest art auction, to be held on the 15th of March, 2025, at Capital Brewery in Fyshwick.
Here is a preview of the art works that will be auctioned on the day.
Eva Van Gorsel
donated by Eva van Gorsel
Ancient – Archival pigment pring on Ilford Fine Art Textured Silk, A2
This photograph showcases an ancient tree in the Antarctic beech forest of New England National Park. It is covered in lichen, moss, and epiphytes, highlighting the tree’s role as a living host for a diverse range of plants. The filtered light from the upper right brings out the textures and rich colours of the forest, illuminating a scene that reflects the interconnectedness of this cool temperate rainforest ecosystem.
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Eva Van Gorsel
donated by Eva van Gorsel
Morning Flight – Archival pigment print on Ilford Smooth Cotton Rag, A2
This photograph captures a crimson rosella in flight on a foggy morning at Kama Nature Reserve, ACT, a reserve that features critically endangered Yellow Box–Blakely’s Red Gum grassy woodlands. The scene highlights the importance of mature trees, with their hollows providing critical nesting sites for native birds. Fallen limbs scattered on the ground reflect the natural cycle of these woodlands, where decaying wood supports insects and other wildlife.
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Eva Van Gorsel
donated by Eva van Gorsel
Up – Archival pigment print on Ilford Smooth Cotton Rag, A2
This photograph captures the towering crowns of the Antarctic beech forest in New England National Park. Sunlight filters through the ever-present mist and fog, casting a soft, diffused glow that highlights the forest’s airy beauty. The interplay of light and fog in this cool temperate rainforest evokes a sense of tranquility and showcases the forest’s unique atmosphere.
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Hedda Murray
donated by Hedda Murray
The Mottlecah, 2023 – Framed fine art print, pigment on cotton
The Mottlecah (eucalyptus macrocarpa) is a species of mallee endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has spectacular gum nuts and large red flowers which bloom from late winter to early summer. In addition to looking gorgeous, Mottlecah flowers are well loved by pollinators such as birds, bees, butterflies and many other insects.
Hedda.M. is a Canberra-based photographer, taking photos across a range of genres: people, places, and the creatures and spaces of the natural world around us, big and small.
Cobie Brinkman
donated by Cobie Brinkman
Greater Glider
Elle Lawless
donated by Elle Lawless
Glider, 2022 – Lino Print, A4
Elle Lawless
donated by Elle Lawless
Burnt to the Beach, Yuin, 2020 – Lino Print, A4
Diana Reynolds
donated by Diana Reynolds
Bush stories from the Zizag Track, 2024 – painting/collage on canvas, Dimensions
My mother was passionate about the environment and conservation, so my natural curiosity and fledgling child ecology was encouraged. I gained a rich appreciation of Australia’s flora, fauna and striking natural places. I was encouraged to draw and paint from pocketings of native flora from the bush and I’d paint landscapes with my mum as well.
As kids we collected jars of tadpoles to witness their metamorphosis. Frogs would be returned to small soaks along bush paths. These were early and enduring conservation lessons and fostered a sensitivity to our climate, ecosystems and environment.
These vulnerable Green and Gold Frogs leaping from bucket to bush are synonymous with the difficulties faced by so many of our native species. This picture represents the imperative leap we must make in our respect for original animal inhabitants, awareness of climate change’s effects and our own impact on the beauty of our natural environments.
Diana Reynolds
donated by Diana Reynolds
Vesica Piscis – collage, Dimensions,
A vesica piscis is the shape formed by the intersection of two circles. Throughout nature it occurs – in seeds pods, buds, fruits, leaves, and animals. It creates cell division integral to organisms, enabling growth and reproduction and is attributed to the female vulva as the portal for life.
The vesica piscis show the turn of day to night, light to dark, season to season, signifying the overlapping colours, appearances, and sensations of these natural rhythms. Tasmanian bush instilled my fundamental love of landscape, entwined with awe for such natural shapes like the vesica piscis to which we are intrinsically attuned.
Diana Reynolds
donated by Diana Reynolds
Vesica Piscis – collage, Dimensions
Diana Reynolds
donated by Diana Reynolds
Lyrebird Table and Chairs
Diana Reynolds
donated by Diana Reynolds
Vesica Piscis – collage, Dimensions,
The vesica piscis is the intersection of two circles forming an almond shape. It occurs
everywhere in nature; in seeds pods, buds, fruits and leaves. It is attributed to the female
vulva as the portal for life and the vesica piscis creates cell division integral to organisms,
enabling growth and reproduction.
Within the vesica piscis shape, I have used Banksia pods, Grevillea seeds, Everlasting
Daisies, Sydney Rock Orchids and Bracken in a collage of image manipulation and textures
on film to represent the shiny protective casings which house floras’ seeds for life, with torn
paper representing unity and separation.
Diana Reynolds
donated by Diana Reynolds
Vesica Piscis – collage, Dimensions
The vesica piscis is the intersection of two circles forming an almond shape. It occurs everywhere in nature; in seeds pods, buds, fruits and leaves. It is attributed to the female vulva as the portal for life and the vesica piscis creates cell division integral to organisms, enabling growth and reproduction.
Within this vesica piscis shape, I have used Banksia pods, Grevillea seeds, Everlasting Daisies, Sydney Rock Orchids, bracken, water, sand and sky in a collage of image manipulation and textures on film. These represent the elemental beauty of transitory immersion we are blessed to experience through our interactions with nature.
Marja Rouse
donated by Marja Rouse
Gumtree – painting/collage/mixed media 90 cm x 60 cm
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Marja Rouse
donated by Marja Rouse
Swift Parrot – painting/collage, 35.5 cm x 28 cm
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Marja Rouse
donated by Marja Rouse
Swift Parrot Head – painting, 30.5 cm x 21.5 cm
Marja Rouse
donated by Marja Rouse
Gumtree – painting, 36 cm x 27.5 cm
Manuel Pfeiffer
donated by Manuel Pfeiffer
Ainslie, 2022 – pencils and colour-pencils on paper, A4 drawing on A3 portrait
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Manuel Pfeiffer
donated by Manuel Pfeiffer
Aranda, 2022 – pencils and colour-pencils on paper, A4 drawing on A3 portrait
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Manuel Pfeiffer
donated by Manuel Pfeiffer
Wee Jasper, 2022 – pencils and colour-pencils on paper, A4 drawing on A3 portrait
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Joseph Alfred Klimek
donated by Rob and Marelle Rawson
Windswept Scene in the Snowy Mountains – oil painting, 810 mm x 980 mm
Joseph A Klimek was a Polish artist who immigrated to Australia with his family in 1960 or 1961. Upon arrival, he began teaching at the National Arts School and East Sydney Technical College. In 1968, he was a finalist for the Archibald Prize and a finalist for the Wynne Prize for Australian Landscape Artwork with a painting titled ‘Waterfront’. In 1970, he was appointed as head of the Department of Fine Arts at Seaforth Technical College. In 1979, he retired to focus on painting full-time. He was born in Poland in 1918 and died in Sydney in 2006.
Frank Bergersen
donated by Frank Bergersen
Yellow Water Lagoon Sunset, Northern Territory
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Frank Bergersen
donated by Frank Bergersen
Cosmos – framed acrylic on canvas, 120 cm x 90 cm.
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Morgyn Phillips
donated by Morgyn Phillips
Mountain Plum Pine 2023: Podocarpus lawrencei Endangered Alpine Habitat – coloured pencil and graphite
The Mountain Plum Pine grows in alpine areas of south eastern Australia and Tasmania. It moulds itself around granite boulders borrowing their warmth and light in response to the harsh alpine environment. Slow growing, it can live for up to 600 years and its growth rings provides clues to past climatic conditions. It provides important habitat for the Mountain Pygmy Possum and both are at risk in a warming climate.
Morgyn Phillips
donated by Morgyn Phillips
‘On the street where you live’: Eucalyptus cinerea Argyle Apple – watercolor and gouache
Canberra’s street trees create an urban forest and are a wonderful feature of the cityscape. My street tree, Eucalyptus cinerea, grows across the south east of Australia on the central and southern tablelands and western slopes. I love turning into my street and seeing its dark twisty limbs and beautiful grey green leaves shimmering in the sunlight. Very young new leaves in springtime are infused with a delicate mauve tinge and the leaves are almost translucent.
In springtime the street is awash with a honey smell from the flowering blossoms which are small and creamy white coloured. Yet another reason to love this tree are the beautiful deep rusty orange the leaves produce as a natural dye.
Our street trees shelter and feed magpies and wattle birds while cockatoos and galahs swing by in the hopes of discovering a nesting hollow. Many of our street trees are still too young by at least 20 to 40 years to have developed hollows.