Sue Rochford

Artist and Wildlife Photographer
Website: http://suzart.com.au

Member: Wildlife Art Society of Australasia,
Ferntree Gully Arts Society,
Birds Australia, Friends of the Zoo and Wildlife Victoria

"Sad"
Ape
Recycled Pastel

Sue works with watercolour, pastel, acrylic, graphite, charcoal and carbon.

She has chosen to do wildlife art almost exclusively as she is motivated to capture the magnificence of those birds and animals that she believes only tentatively share our planet. She has lived in Melbourne all her life but travelled extensively and seen some exotic wildlife both captive and free. She remains however most excited by our fabulous Australian wildlife including our brilliant birds.

Sue's art is now represented both in Australia and overseas as far as Canada and Germany. In 2008 she won the Grand Prize at the Annual Member's Exhibition of the Ferntree Gully Arts Society with a charcoal work of crimson rosella. She was also Highly Commended at the 2009 Herring Island WASA exhibition for a pastel of a young monkey (done with recycled pastel).

A few years ago she began work with the rescue and care of injured Australian wild life with Wildlife Victoria. She is particularly interested and involved in the rehabilitation of injured sulphur crested cockatoo. In the recent past she finished a term as paid Editor of a high circulation birding magazine. She has also been a long term volunteer at Healesville Sanctuary. She strongly believes that the plight of our wildlife deserves our immediate and sustained attention. She maintains that wildlife are like the canary taken down the mine, if the canary dies, we are all in serious trouble.

"Lover's tiff"
Koala
Charcoal and Carbon