Giclée on paper

Signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity.

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Absolutely superb quality LIMITED EDITION GICLÉE PRINT.
From an original watercolour painting by Frances McMahon.

IMAGE SIZE: 26.2 x 27.5cm.
(With an additional 5cm border of white all round to assist with framing)

Very low edition of 40.

Printed on 100% cotton 310gsm Canson Infinity Edition Etching.

Original professionally scanned and colour-corrected at an astonishing 600dpi.
Printed using fade-proof archival inks.

They are the closest thing to the original painting at a fraction of the cost. Guaranteed to take your breath away!

Please allow up to 4 weeks delivery, as each print is printed "on demand".

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ARTIST STATEMENT
The beloved and eternally popular "Blue Wren" of Australia needs no introduction.

These delicate and beautiful birds are a common sight in eastern Australia where suitable dense cover and shrubs occur.
With their high tinkling twittering, constant tail bobbing and the unmistakable "cute" factor, it's easy to see why this species was voted 2021 Australian bird of the year.

Australia has 9 species of fairy-wren, 3 emu-wrens and 11 grasswrens forming the family Maluridae. However, they aren't related to the true wrens from the family Trogoldytidae.

As with all fairy-wrens, the sexes are strongly dimorphic; the male often seen surrounded by the plainer females, but a proportion of them are males which haven't attained breeding plumage. Males leave their territory during the day and perform courtship displays (often with a yellow flower in the beak) to other females, but it is the females that control the choice of mate.