Busy - signed limited edition print Ed. 3 of 100

My client in Beijing wanted a beautiful flower with a busy bee to remind her of wonderful memories of nature. I searched my neighbourhood for a white flower in May in Toowoomba and around the corner was an old Gordonia tree (also known as the fried egg flower because of it's likeness to fried eggs). The bees were busy. After completing this painting, to me it become a symbolic gesture to be like a bee, be passionate, be happy, be loving, be kind and be thoughtful. I wanted to also honour the important work bees and other pollinators do for their hive (by visiting around 2000 flowers to create just one teaspoon of honey) and for our very own food production. Without pollinators, most plants including food for humans would not be pollinated. My painting is my appreciation to bees and all pollinators.

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Ngaire is an Australian self taught artist and is studying classical art theory. She creates beautifully rendered artworks using a variety of mediums preferring oil paints to take advantage of classical glazing techniques.

Ngaire has been in awe of nature her whole life. Her signature style is capturing ‘the essence’ of her subject, the dance her colours create, how they meld into a symphonic and technical playfulness and the poses chosen to emphasize the subjects unique beauty. Her maturing technical ability and compositional components aids her artworks to have a ‘timeless expression of beauty and joy’.

Ngaire’s portraits of nature are much admired nationally and internationally. Although still an emerging artist, Her artworks have already been collected throughout Australia, the UK and in China with commissions in Beijing.

In 2017, her creativity was translated into brass plates mounted in pavers as a permanent public art pavement piece at the Grand Central Shopping Centre in Toowoomba, Australia to honour the Indigenous owners of the land, the Giabal and Jarrowair people.