Original Available $550

Watercolour on ARCHES 300gsm Watercolour paper.

31cms W x 28cms L x 4cms D

Professionally framed in Australian Raw Oak, shadowbox with Perspex for UV protection, fade resistance and safe transporting.

I first began sketching  bilby’s to educate my grandson Roy about them which led me to want to paint him. Resulting in this big eared, doe eyed fellow. A perfect gift for a newborns nursery, child’s birthday gift or the avid enviromentalsit in your life.

Imagine going to sleep or waking to his friendly little face each day.

The Greater Bilby, scientific name is Macrotis. Sometimes depicted as Australia’s Easter Bunny, belongs to a group of ground-dwelling marsupials known as bandicoots. I have never seen a Bilby in life, however here on my patch the night garden is alive with the larger and serious ‘digger’ of gardens, the bandicoots.

Did you know?

Macrotis is a genus of desert-dwelling marsupial omnivores known as bilbies or rabbit-bandicoots; they are members of the order Peramelemorphia. At the time of European colonisation of Australia, there were two species. The lesser bilby became extinct in the 1950s; the greater bilby survives but remains endangered.

The good news is In 2023, the overall estimated Bilby population at AWC sanctuaries is at least 3,315, more than double the 1,480 estimated individuals in 2022 and 1,230 in 2021. A new population established at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary in 2022 contributed to the increase in AWC’s overall Bilby population.  Annual census numbers  and safe havens the numbers exceed 3,3000 Ref : Australianwildlife,org