The works chosen, represent what I love to paint.
“Birds and flowers figure heavily in my daily painting, I am constantly intrigued by the complexity that appears in a small space. To me the structure of a flower is brilliant engineering, a bird's wing amazing design, perfect for each bird species. In my paintings I attempt to reveal the detail that we often don't see.
Sometimes we don't have time to sit and watch and art can help by bringing the detail, colour and complexity to the observer.
For me, there is a connection between natural history art and a community. We are all surrounded by it...for some, it is lack of time... or perhaps lack of interest, that make it difficult to see the beauty of nature, but it is there every day.
I hope the collection of works inspire people to visit a park, perhaps to take a chair outside and watch and listen, nature is there.” - Terry Napier
Works on display:
- Two Bearded Iris Flowers
- Two Eucalyptus Species
- Hellebore Flowers
- Male Blue Wren on Hibbertia Scanden
- Sturt Desert Pea
- Male and Female Spotted Pardarlote on Red Box
- Male Blue Wren on Eucalyptus
- Red Browned Finch On Swan River Pea
- Bearded Iris Flower ‘pour the wine’
Location of artwork
- Tunstall Square Laneway Gallery, Tunstall Square Shopping Centre, Corner of Tunstall Road and Doncaster Road, Doncaster East, VIC 3109
- View on map
About the artist
Terry is a long-time resident of Manningham. Now retired, he started teaching at the Park Orchards Community House in 1996. He had been running botanical and wildlife workshops on weekend at galleries and other venues and the opportunity to teach closer at home was great.
The workshops soon developed into regular classes, and he was soon filling his time a couple of days a week. From these classes emerged the ‘Nature in Art’ program now offered at the Park Orchards Community House and the Canterbury Neighbourhood House. While Terry still prefers to use watercolour in his work, there are now other teachers teaching colour pencil technique.
Having drawn and painted from early in his life, he developed a passion for shape and colours of the natural world. Painting birds and flowers soon opened the world of bees, butterfly’s and other pollinators. Teaching allowed him to share all this with others and perhaps making people aware of the danger in losing more and more of the natural world.
Terry painted with the Wildlife Artist Society and has participated in the botanical exhibitions held at the Royal Botanic Gardens (RGB), Melbourne since the early nineties.
Today his paintings are represented in Victoria’s Sate Collection RBG, The Cranbourne Botanical Collection, the Illustrated Garden RBG and in the Government House Florilegium, held in the state Library of Victoria. They have also found homes in a number of countries around the world.
Learn more about Terry Napier
PUBLIC VIEW
Experience art in your every day.
This exhibition is part of PUBLIC VIEW, which presents artworks across a network of sites in Manningham. The program features a series of changing exhibitions that invite you to reflect and connect with diverse ideas and stories.
New artworks are exhibited every six to twelve months, with selected sites dedicated to showcasing work by local artists.
