Baby Bush-stone Curlew, watercolour on paper, 28x28 cm, 2013, © Matteo Grilli 2013 I came across a family of Bush-stone Curlews at th...

Feathers of Australian Birds This original artwork was selected among the finalists for the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. The...

In this post I am going to share the account I wrote last year about my experience in reuniting a baby Tawny Frogmouth with its famil...

Portrait of a Jabiru 3/3, watercolour on paper, 22 x 19 cm, © Matteo Grilli 2013 The following original artwork was sele...

This is the first painting from a series all dedicated to the Jabiru or Black-necked Stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus. I found its r...

The Magpie-lark ( Grallina cyanoleuca ) is a very common suburban bird in Brisbane, it is often seen searching for food walking frant...

Iridescence is a very fascinating feature of feathers in many species of birds from all over the world. Certainly the brightest and mos...

During the past holiday weeks I decided to start working on some botanical sketches of leaves, just to start looking into the nev...

I found this beautiful butterfly in a flower bed in the Brisbane City centre. Dead. It is a Lime or Chequered Swallowta...