Denise Faulkner

@denisefaulkner.art

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Australian watercolour artist, Burmese cat slave, nature lover, bibliophile, working in and inspired by Wiradjuri country near Mudgee https://shop.denisefaulkner.art/

A watercolour painting of a blue and white Spode plate where I filled it with references from the Goodies TV Show which was my favourite when I grew up

Shows a black swan with a lamington in her beak standing on a two tiered cake stand with more lamingtons

Shows twelve apostlebirds perched on and around an ornate soup tureen and a bowl of tomato soup, the ultimate comfort food

Shows an unfinished watercolour of a brushtail possum eating some gladioli flowers while wearing Dame Edna glasses

Shows four small watercolour paintings of various critters on teacups, described individually in the next three photos. The only one not there because of the image limit is my green frog sitting on a Wedgwood teacup.

Shows four whimsical watercolour paintings, a quokka holding a mocha, a kangaroo holding a teacup, a lace monitor holding a lace patterned teacup, a fairy penguin strolling off with a fairy cake

Shows a watercolour painting of a lace monitor holding a teacup giving side eye

Shows my last painting for the year, a watercolour of a fairy penguin holding a fairy cupcake

Shows an echidna on a platter with cheese and cabanosi on some of his spines pretending to be a cheese hedgehog from the 1980s

Shows a far from finished watercolour of a fairy penguin with a fairy cake on a turquoise spotted cup cake case

Shows a cat flopped on my lap while I am sitting at my desk with an unfinished watercolour painting of a quokka holding a mocha in progress

Shows a watercolour painting of a galah holding an iced vovo in her beak dunking it into her cup of tea, with a hundreds and thousands biscuit in her crest

Shows four small square watercolour paintings of Australian natives holding vintage teacups. There is a possum, a Tasmanian devil, a wombat and a platypus

Shows two watercolour paintings side by side each showing birds perched on precariously stacked teasets. One featuring the regent honeyeater and one with spotted Pardalotes

Shows a not quite finished watercolour painting of highly detailed teapots and cups all stacked impossibly on each other with little spotted pardalotes hidden in amongst them

A detail from a much larger watercolour painting of a spotted pardalote perched on the open top of a teapot which is hanging by its handle from another teapot spout

Shows a watercolour painting of a Woylie crocheting a doily

Shows a watercolour painting of a tawny frogmouth holding a chintz teacup with a butterfly perched on the edge. The tawny frogmouth has a faintly surprised expression on her face

Shows a watercolour portrait of a bush/brush/scrub turkey holding a chintz paisley teacup with his pinky in the air

Shows the reissue of Australian women’s weekly children’s birthday cake book

Shows the basic blocking in of watercolour for a Tasmanian devil portrait holding a teacup

Shows an unfinished painting of a brushtail possum with his tongue out holding a teacup with roses on it

Showing a very terrible photo of a wombat’s behind waddling around our yard, taken at night, in the rain, with a torch on an iPhone

Showing four square watercolours each with an Australian native holding a pretty teacup.
There is a currawong with black and gold Versace teacup
A platypus holding a Willow Pattern teacup
A tawny frogmouth with a butterfly friend on a chintz teacup
A bush turkey holding a red and yellow paisley teacup

Shows a watercolour painting of a mostly black bird with bright yellow eyes and a big beak holding a yellow and black teacup with a strong coloured tea in it

Shows a watercolour of a platypus holding a Booths Willow Teacup. The painting is called Platypussy Willow

Shows a just started watercolour of teapots and teacups stacked precariously on top of each other

Shows a watercolour painting of two gouldian finches on a purple Chinese vase filled with wattle

Shows a messy desk with paints and paintings everywhere, but in the right front corner is a knitted blanket which is a cat nest. My little chocolate Burmese cat is curled up in it in the sunshine

Shows four unfinished watercolour paintings laid out on my desk. One has a bush turkey holding a red paisley teacup; the next has an emu holding a fondue fork (not yet painted); there is one with a stack of Imari teapots and cups with lots of spotted pardalotes on it and; the last has en eastern grey kangaroo with a happy face holding a teacup

Shows and unfinished watercolour painting of an eastern grey kangaroo portrait with a happy face holding a yellow art deco cup with a silhouette design on it. The original shows people dancing, my version has a kangaroo mob just hanging out in the distance

Shows the cover on my next year’s calendar which shows a stack of colourful teapots and cups with wrens perch on it

Shows a watercolour painting of lots of colourful detailed teapots and teacups stacked awkwardly on top of each other

A watercolour painting showing a barn owl standing over a yellow teaset and cake plate with a slice of passion fruit cheesecake on it with a little native antechinus (often mistaken for a mouse) looking up at the owl

Shows a hand holding a fine paintbrush painting details on one of many colourful teapots in this current painting

Shows a close up of a Burmese cat on a lap with a blurry colourful painting in the background

It is a photo of The Count from Sesame Street

Shows an unfinished watercolour portrait painting of a bush turkey holding a teacup with an orange swirly paisley pattern. The claw holding the teacup has his pinky out and his yellow ruff looks like a fabulous scarf or designer jewellery

Shows a small square watercolour painting of a brown Peron’s tree frog climbing over the side of a teacup and saucer with butterflies on it

Shows an almost finished whimsical watercolour painting of an echidna sitting up holding a pretty teacup with a spiky pattern on it. The echidna has sleepy looking eyes

Showing three colourful watercolour paintings of birds and precarious stacks of porcelain on my desk, all very close to being finished

A watercolour painting of a blue and white tulipiere (Dutch tulip vase) with parrot tulips and lots of different Australian native parrots

Shows an almost finished colourful watercolour of pretty porcelain tea pots and cups stacked precariously with little birds, superb wrens perched everywhere as they are curious little creatures

A watercolour painting of blue and white tea things all stacked awkwardly on top of each other with little finches perched all over it

A watercolour painting of blue and white tea things all stacked awkwardly on top of each other with little finches perched all over it

Shows a watercolour painting of a kookaburra flying off with a tiered cake stand of chocolate crackles with some falling off.

An unfinished watercolour of colourful teapots stacked awkwardly on each other

A flock of flighty finches perched upon a precarious pile of precious and pretty porcelain.
A watercolour painting of double barred finches on an awkward stack of blue and white teapots.

Shows a sketch of a teapot balanced on a teapot balanced on a teacup and saucer, with a corner of the actual tea pot I am drawing in the corner

Shows a print of my Bubble O’Billby painting, which is of a bilby licking a Bubble O’Billy ice cream

A nowhere near finished watercolour painting of various colourful teapots and tea cups precariously balanced on one another. There are little unpainted wrens perched everywhere too.

Shows a Burmese cat lying upside down on the watercolour I am trying to work on. She looks very naughty, and that is because she is

A watercolour painting showing a Feathertail glider sitting on top of a pulled pork and coleslaw slider which is on a pretty red and purple plate

Watercolour painting which shows three green tree frogs on an ornate Chinese teapot. This was from an exhibition in 2021