FEATURE ARTIST | Jason McDonald
Exquisite detail
Jason McDonald
Top image: Whitebox (detail); Middle image: Finches (detail). Bottom image: Finches. Photos courtesy of the artist.
We are pleased to welcome Jason McDonald to GOST. I recently met Jason in person and feel like we've known each other for ages. A very natural friendship due to our down to earth attitude, good sense of humour and clearly a love of art. Jason has created smaller works especially for GOST and with Christmas around the corner it's the perfect time to gift to a loved one or reward yourself for any reason! Jason is inspired by the flora and fauna on the property where his popular eco retreat accommodation is located. He is as close to nature as one can get and when I caught up with him recently in Orange he enthusiastically told me about these orchid plants that trick insects into pollinating them. Effectively they have been duped as there was no nectar! BTW they are called Australian Tiger orchids Diuris sulphurea, part of the Donkey Orchid family.
To read more about Jason visit his artist page which tells you more about the works we have at GOST. We have created a little video (see below) of his artworks so you can go on a virtual tour through the Australian Bush.
Feature Collection
Title | Iron bark, Bees and beetles
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with glass.
Size | 25.5 x 3 x 25.5 cm
Editions | 8/20 sold is available. (If this has sold, Contact Anne if you had your heart set on one and order with her).
A little bit more | The iconic Iron bark Eucalyptus paniculata renowned for its timber strength has large flowering events every few years, providing pollen and nectar for Bees Apis mellifera. Important since it often flowers in cooler months of the year when other nectar sources are low, it is favored by beekeepers to produce a deeply coloured intense flavoured honey. Longicorn beetles Agrianome spinicollis are nocturnal and lay eggs in the rough crackly bark. Hatched larvae known as ‘witchetty grubs’ then bore holes deep into tree as they feed on wood and pupate. New beetles emerge through self-cut escape hatches in the bark and progress out into the world.
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All artworks come with a printed Artist Statement and Biography
Photos: Courtesy of the artist
Title | Superb fairy wrens nesting in eggs & bacon pea & pink matchheads
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with glass.
Year | 2020
Size | 33 x 3 x 33 cm
Editions | 1 & 2, 4-7/20, 10/20 SOLD, 11/20 now available. Please contact Anne if you would like the next edition.
Name plate | available only for 10/20
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All artworks come with a printed Artist Statement and Biography
Photos: Courtesy of the artist
We have more of Jason’s framed works - Diamond Firetail and Finches; White Box, bees and Christmas Beetles; Chocolate Lily, Billy Button, Butterflies, Grasshoppers and Ladybugs.
Title |Chocolate Lily, Billy Button, Butterflies, Grasshoppers & Ladybugs
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with glass.
Year | 2020
Size | 33 x 3 x 33 cm
Name plate | n/a (no longer available)
Editions | 1/20 (sold); 2/20 (sold) 3/20 (sold); 7/20 available
A little bit more | Warm summer days bring a distinct perfume of chocolate from Chocolate Lilies Arthropodium strictum. In open grassland Rayed Blue Butterflies Candalidesheathi and grasshoppers fly close to the ground sprinkled with Billy Buttons Craspedia. Climbing the grass and flowers are Ladybugs Coccinella transersalishunting for aphids.
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All artworks come with a printed Artist Statement and Biography
Photos: Courtesy of the artist
Medium | Photography
Materials | Fine art giclée print on archival quality 310 gsm cotton rag paper with backing board in a protective acetate sleeve.
Size | A3 (297 mm x 420 mm)
Printed | in Australia
Extra | Signed, embossed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Limited edition of 20. Each artwork has a brief description which can be read here.
All artworks come with a printed Artist Statement and Biography
Photos | Courtesy of the artist
Title |River Sheoak, Moths & Bees
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with glass.
Size | 25.5 x 3 x 25.5 cm
Editions | 8/20 and 9/20 sold, 11/20 is available. (Contact Anne if you had your heart set on one and order with her).
A little bit more | Standing tall yet flexible along the riverbank preventing destructive soil erosion is the River Sheoak Casuarina cunninghamiana. Each year the flowering male trees turn a rusty brown attracting BeesApis mellifera to their pollen load. Female trees flash small red flowers developing into spiky seed cones upon pollination by bee or wistful wind. The wiry leaves and twigs of the trees house and feed the eggs of Sheoak MothsPernattia pusilla Sheoak the eventual caterpillar cocoons sparsely decorated with hair from their own body hang off branches like lanterns.
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All artworks come with a printed Artist Statement and Biography
Photos: Courtesy of the artist
Title | White Box, Bees and Christmas Beetles
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with Ultra Vue glass (non reflective and UV protective)
Year | 2020
Size | 33 x 3 x 33 cm
Edition | 1/20, 2/20 (note slight price increase for 2022) both SOLD. 4/20 is available without a name plate.
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All artworks come with a printed Artist Statement and Biography
Photos: Courtesy of the artist
Title | Diamond Firetail Finches and Ribbon Gum
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with glass.
Year | 2020
Size | 33 x 3 x 33 cm
Edition | 2/20, 3/20, 4/20, 5/20, 7/20, 10/20 (note a slight increase in price in 2022) - all SOLD. Contact Anne if you would like to purchase this artwork.
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All artworks come with a printed Artist Statement and Biography
Photos: Courtesy of the artist
Title | Bluebells, Golden Weather Grass and Lizards
Materials | Photograph printed on cotton rag paper. Oak finish frame with glass.
Size | 25.5 x 3 x 25.5 cm
Editions | 6/20 sold is available. (If this has sold already, Contact Anne if you had your heart set on one and order with her).
A little bit more from the artist about the artwork | Soon after drought breaking rain wild flowers of Native Bluebell Wahlenbergia stricta and Golden Weather Grass Hypoxis hygrometrica spring to life. Providing shelter for Jacky Lizards Amphibolurus muricatus basking on quarts rocks with their sit and wait approach to catch tiny Grasshoppers Phaulacridium vittatum.
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All artworks come with a printed Artist Statement and Biography
Photos: Courtesy of the artist