Moonlight Brings the Magic

While all of the people are snuggled asleep.

The concept for this painting was for several animals to be on their nightly jaunt in a suburban city. I chose Red Hill, Brisbane, Australia as it’s quite iconic to many of us Brisbanites. It was inspired by my artist mother Robyn Bauer’s painted suburban scenes.

I wanted to include a sugar glider and also a carpet python, but keep the two animals as far apart as possible, hence the snake’s slithering out in the opposite direction to the glider. Lots of fun creating this this painting for children’s book “Snuggled Away” written by Cate Storey.

Sugar Glider and Carpet Python with a view of Red Hill.

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Sarah Matsuda is a fine artist and children's book painter living in Paddington, Brisbane. Specialising in mixed media, Sarah works on a range of commissioned pieces for books, portraits and also figurative pieces for sale.

The third generation artist on both sides of her family, Sarah's mother is Robyn Bauer the fine artist painter & her father is Mark Andrews the sculptor who created the larger than life "Sheep" at Teneriffe, Brisbane. Her grandmothers Joan Bauer & Pixie Joan Andrews were also both well known, Brisbane artists. Sarah’s first exhibition was a joint exhibition at the age of 13 years old with her mother Robyn, where she showed lino prints coloured with watercolour and sculptures of animals in clay.

Sarah's first solo show was in 2022, in conjunction with the launch of a beautiful children’s book about Australian wildlife called “Snuggled Away” written by Cate Storey and illustrated by Sarah. They have also published a second book "The Perfect Hollow" and their third book "Sunny Finds His Song" is about to be released.

You can commission artworks for subjects including brides and wedding images, boudoir, breastfeeding mother and baby, family portraits & pregnancy.