Original Paintings by Australian Artist Garry Purcell

This butterfly painting was based on a flower I found on one of my walks in the botanical gardens near where I live. The flower had many different butterflies stopping for a feed, so it was a perfect candidate for my painting.The Melbourne Botanical Ga ...

I added the Yellow Australian Admiral butterfly to make this a more interesting painting. It’s painted in the Old Masters style of grisaille with colour washes to give good depth and transparency in the colours. Close Up showing some detail of the Aust ...

I came across this butterfly at the Melbourne Zoo in the heated Butterfly House. Its an Australian Birdwing Butterfly, which adorns spectacular colours on its wings, the Melbourne zoo's butterfly house is operational all year and houses quite a few diffe ...

This painting was based on a flower I came across on one of my walks. I added the Australian Painted Lady Butterfly to make this composition a bit more interesting.My painting was created in the style of the Old Masters, using a black and white under pai ...

This painting is based from a walk I did at a local botanical park, and I spotted a bird sitting on a Yellow Protea flower. I have no idea as to what species the bird belongs to, but I did like the small splash of yellow on its wing.

Draught Horse from Churchill Island 

A Spectacular Sunset as seen through my eyes. This is based on a walk I did through one of the Endeavour Hills playgrounds at sunset. I was taken back by the almost surreal abstract that lay before me, what confronted me was the Straight Lines piercing t ...

The colours of the sunrise hit the Dead Gum Trees, and turned them into shades of Red and Yellow in a most spectacular way along the Wimmera River near the Grampians.

This Seascape oil painting is from my recent trip to Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula. (Victoria, Australia) I will be painting several scenes from this beautiful coastline area. This original seascape oil painting I completed, is at the area known ...

This scenic location is known as the Flinders Rock Blowhole, its located on the Mornington Peninsula area of, Victoria, Australia This painting is based on one of my painting trips down to the Flinders Area on the Mornington Peninsula.The weather was fai ...

When I painted this landscape, I was holidaying in my caravan at Lake Fyans located in the Grampians district of Victoria, and just finished painting this beautiful Australian Landscape, you can drive past this location on one of the main roads and totall ...

Lysterfield Lake is within walking distance of my home, and this is one of the small tracks I stroll along to the lake.

This piece of machinery is found before the Churchill Island Bridge causeway Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.

This Original Pelargonium flower - floral oil painting, was painted using the traditional Grisaille method of the Old Masters.Its based on a flowers growing in my own front yard.  Close up of the Pelargonium Tirley Garth flower in my oil painting ...

The Pelican is a rather unusual looking bird, I spotted this one on a lake as it was quietly swimming past me. I took a long distance photo using my Canon camera's zoom lens, I had forgotten about this image for quite a few weeks, and when my sdcard need ...

I came across this Pink Azalea flower at the Royal Melbourne Botanical Gardens, and here is my rendering of it.

While I was visiting the Melboune Zoo and I took a few photos of Ramalon, the Sumatran tiger in his enclosure.

This painting was based on a red Flower I came across at the Wilson Botanical Park, near where I live. I wanted to give this painting a 3D effect, and I believe I achieved in doing so. It's painted in the Old Masters style of grisaille, with colour wash ...

This is a small tranquil rural scene I created for a painting demonstration and its now up for grabs. I enjoy finding interesting scenes to paint, and a really good way to achieve this is to basically cut and past bits and pieces in your mind to form an ...

This oil painting was inspired by one of my trips along the Victoria Coastline. I stopped at San Remo for some lunch, and spotted these boats moored at the jetty, so I took a photo for reference, and started my painting.