Series : Wander Out Yonder "In 2022 we travelled to the Dryandra Woodlands near Narrogin for the first time - to hopefully spot a Numbat or two... and we did! These charming little critters are hard to find, and now only live in a couple of places in WA. They were once commonly found thru out the South West and across Southern Australia they are now endangered as they are very susceptible to feral and domestic cats, living nearby - foxes and wedge tailed Eagles, bad forest management and fire. They are the emblem of WA and until very recently I'd never known how critical their number had become. Unbelievably you can just drive around in The Dryandra Woodland - very slowly and you might spot them digging for their only food - termites. The Red Tail Black Cockatoo is also critically endangered now as a result of land clearing, farming practices and sadly road kills". Wander Out Yonder Series: This series has been created using painted paper collage. Fi first creates a mixture of colours and textured papers and then hand cuts the shapes, free hand, constructing the subjects from memory and sketchbook observations. She uses reference book photographs to correctly observe the birds she is studying. The original images are photographed and then reproduced.
