28 February 2014

Touche-à-tout

Blue Duck

Eileen Mayo (1906–1994) was an English-born artist and designer who worked in England, Australia and New Zealand in almost every available medium: drawing, woodcut, lithograph on stone and tempera, tapestry and silk screening.

In addition to being a printmaker, illustrator, calligrapher and muralist, she designed coins, stamps, tapestry and posters and wrote and illustrated eight books on natural science.

Enjoy the beautiful birds made with gouache and coloured pencil on paper in 1976 by meticulous touche-à-tout Eileen Mayo.


 Brown Duck 



 Fairy Tern 



 Kakapo



 Little Spotted Kiwi



 New Zealand Falcon



 New Zealand Shore Plover



 Reef Heron



 South Island Kokako



 Subantarctic Snipe



White Heron