Painted Stone - Black Cat jewellery-brooches

Painted Stone - Black Cat jewellery-broochesPainted on a NZ beach stone with artist's acrylic, in fine detail (on all sides). It is signed underneath and varnished. MEASUREMENTS: Length: 9cm; Width: 6. 5cm; Height: 3. 5cm Your rock pet will travel securely in its own little rustic gift box with plenty of bedding!

I wanted to capture the fantail's inquisitive nature

The bumble bee in my painting is about to do the same

This vibrant and lifelike monarch butterfly necklace is hand crafted from premium clay and painted in fine detail with many glazes of colour and a luxurious gloss finish

and are mainly found in the East coast of the South Island

I chose the soft yellow colour for the background to portray the brightness and new life of spring and to compliment the warm red and brown tones of the rest of the painting

This painting was inspired by the various blackbird babies who appear in our garden every spring and perch here and there - looking delightfully fat and fluffy - while waiting for their overworked parents to bring them the next meal

is NZ's only native owl and mainly lives in forests

Baby moreporks are one of my favourite subjects to paint because of their beautiful golden yellow eyes and intense

healing and vitality

A cute & quirky Little Owl peeking from it's hole in a hollow tree

A cute grey tabby kitten painted on a NZ beach stone with artist's acrylic

and I was once lucky enough to see one fly very close to me when I was out in the garden at dusk - what amazed me was the absolute silence of it's flight: it was like a huge dark moth gliding silently past