Sylvie Gerozisis - Birds of Tasmania - Oil Painting Art Print - The Eastern Spinebill
$110.00
The Eastern Spinebill
'Birds of Tasmania' Fine Art Print
Artwork by Sylvie Gerozisis
Pigment ink print on 100% Cotton Rag archival paper
Open Edition Print
30 x 24cm
To suit 11 x 14" Frame
The Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) is a small and very lively honeyeater, which enjoys living in, and flitting through dense vegetation.
Their specialized beak allows them to reach deep into tubular flowers, and since (unlike most other Australian honeyeaters), they have the ability to move their wings at high speeds, they can even hover when extracting nectar from flowers.
The Eastern Spinebill feeds on the nectar of many plants, but in my garden the Eastern Spinebills are particularly fond of banksia flowers. In this painting I have located this small bird amongst the stylised and abstracted leaf rosettes of Banksia paludosa.
Copyright Sylvie Gerozisis
