The Story Behind the Paintings

Adjoining Possum Park is an abandoned train line and along the 2km section on our side are three dams. This is one of my favourite places for birdwatching and photography as it supports lots of wildlife.

The raised train line gives you a good vantage point of the birds feeding on the grass seeds. This also gives you kilometres of open grass country and open sky to see things approaching.

In the Second World War the train line was used to transport the ammunition’s to 3CR RAAF Kowguran, now known as Possum Park. This was disused in the late 90’s so is safe to walk along. Reminds me of the movie Stand by Me and is always fun to try and balance on the train tracks. There is always a childhood inside of us.

I have found that this is the most likely place to find a variety of fairywren’s. The most common are the Superb, Red-backed and White-winged Fairywren with an occasional appearance from the Purple-backed Fairywren.

Now the Artworks

Last year I had artworks in Lapunyah Art Gallery at Chinchilla. This was an anonymous display, so you only signed the back of your artwork and the buyer only found out the artist after purchase. Because of my attention to detail, Lorraine & Ross worked out I was the artist. I sent them a message and said I would sign the front of the artwork since they were coming out with friends to Possum Park in a few weeks.

Once we got talking, I was showing Lorraine and Ross the bird flyer that I had made with over 100 birds. Lorraine noticed that I had other fairywren’s other than the superb. I said yes we have four varieties down by the train line, which led to another three commissions and have become a wonderful set of local fairywren’s.

My Paintings

My painting come from my own experiences that I have photographed while traveling. By reading this blog, you as a viewer can now hear The Story Behind the Painting. Where, when, what was happening while I was photographing the wildlife.

Enjoy, Chris Osborne