Australia houses a wealth of artistic talent, but, due to geographic limitations, Australia’s artists, designers and illustrators can be difficult to spot in the wild. The Jacky Winter Group Field Guide seeks to assist the reader in identifying some of Australia’s more impressive specimens.
Included are a selection of folio samples from artists represented by the agency, as well as their take on the Jacky Winter, a native Australian robin. The call of the Jacky Winter is a clear two-note whistle of “Peter-peter-peter” repeated over and over and over and over.
For the enthusiast, this guide has been bound so that individual pages can be easily extracted for safe-keeping. The final page of the guide may be removed and folded along the marked creases to form a convenient desk-frame to further aid your identification efforts.
Apart from a regularly updated news and portfolio website, The Jacky Winter group produces a printed ‘Field-Guide’. Based on traditional ornithological publications, these books contain selected samples of each artists portfolio as well as original illustrations by each artist in response to a related brief.
The 2007 Field guide is inspired by the book ‘Common City Birds’ By Graeme Chapman, first published by Landsdown Press in 1969, and features individual artist interpretations of the Jacky Winter, the namesake of the agency.
Special thanks to “Graeme Chapman”:http://graemechapman.com.au/ for allowing permission to reprint images from the book.
Individuals responsible for art buying/commissioning interested in obtaining a copy should “contact”:http://www.jackywinter.com/contact the agency.
Limited quantities of the guide are now available at Metropolis, Greville St Bookstore, and Brunswick St Bookstore in Melbourne, and Ariel Booksellers in Sydney.
Watch this space early next year for updates including the sale of original art and reproductions.