Bird Art by Bird Artist Peta Boyce

Bird Paintings by Bird Artist Peta Boyce

Bird paintings and prints By Peta Boyce Peta Boyce Bird Art

Peta Boyce

A passion for wildlife and nature's beauty combined with her love to draw and paint is Peta's inspiration for her art. For many years she cared for injured and orphaned Australian native marsupials and birds, in particular some of the smaller species of birds.and it was from these years of caring for birds that her interest in them as subjects to paint developed.
Peta is a self-taught artist working mainly in gouache. She has also co-authored and illustrated the book "Wild About You-Friends With Feathers", a collection of short stories about some of the birds the artist had cared for during her years as a wildlife foster carer. Although born in Australia, her childhood was spent in Papua New Guinea, moving to Queensland, Australia as a young adult. She has travelled extensively in Australia researching her subjects (mainly birds) and more recently to Africa and South East Asia.

Recent Awards:
2010 Best Australian Wildlife Maleny Art Festival
2010 Highly Commended International Wildlife Queensland Wildlife Artists Society
2009 People's Choice QWASI Exhibition
2007 Best In Show QWASI International Exhibition
2007 1st Prize Animals in Art Kenilworth Art Exhibition
2006 1st Prize Australian Flora & Fauna Qld.R.N.A.

Juried Exhibitions:
2010 Society of Animal Artists 50th Anniversary Exhibition, San Diego, U.S.A.
2010 Art of Conservation,
2009 Art of Conservation, Hiram Blauvelt Mueum, N.J, U.S.A.
2009 Caldera Art Awards, Tweed Heads
2009 Rotary Art Spectacular, Brisbane

Membership:
Society of Animal Artists (Associate Member)
Artists for Conservation
Queensland Wildlife Artists Society Inc.
Nature in the Raw