Spotted Pardalote – Original

From Wendy's paintbrush and a place of genuine wonder. The pardalote rewards every second you spend with it. New details reveal themselves the longer you look, and you will keep looking. One of Australia's smallest birds. One of Wendy's most extraordinary paintings.

The spotted pardalote is easy to miss in the bush – a tiny, jewel-bright flash of black, white, and gold moving through the eucalypt canopy. But Wendy has stopped it still, up close, and what you find when you really look is almost impossible to believe. White spots scattered across a black crown like a sky full of stars. Feathers tipped in gold and amber, layered like the finest embroidery. Blue-black wings edged in white. A warm amber eye that looks straight back at you, calm, unhurried, completely present.