Dive into a winter wonderland Su Walker
When did your artistic passion begin? My interest in photography evolved through my volunteer role as a wildlife rehabilitator. It was a means of portraying the beauty of our native wildlife. Since then, I have explored many techniques from macro photography to abstracts and impressionist photography.
Describe your work.
By minimising composition to its basic elements of lines, shapes, light, texture and colour, I expose the life force that surrounds, leaving the image to become purely expressive. My passion is abstraction where I can lose myself to the emotion the subject arouses – an avenue to explore an endless search for beauty, simplicity, serenity and quiet energy. What inspires you? Photography is a voyage of discovery and painting with a camera has given me an avenue to express energies, feelings and emotions rather than portray the obvious. The viewer in some cases may have no realistic visual clue as to my subject matter but can indulge in a sensory experience of colour and mood. My journey within continues as I sense myself evolving through my work, inspired and fully absorbed in the moment. What has been your greatest achievement? The success of my fi rst exhibition An Eye on Nature and the success of the following exhibition Force of Nature joint exhibit with Mark St Clair and the forthcoming invitation from Gallery Raw to become an artist in residence.
ARTIST: Su Walker
Su Walker’s work will be featured in her Through the Looking Glass exhibition at Gallery Raw until July 31. Visit her website at
suwalker.net and her portfolio can be viewed at
redbubble.com/people/suwalker.
Work: Paddock of Hidden Beauty, Ocean Sands, Ocean Swept.
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GO on a voyage of discovery at Sydney Aquarium these school holidays as you follow the new Winter Wonders of the Ocean trail.
Sydney Aquarium will be transformed with snow and snowflakes guiding you along a wintery trail of cool facts, giant LEGO brick models and fascinating aquatic animals found in the briny depths of our seas and the icy oceans of the Antarctic. Step into the alpine region of
Australia’s Snowy Mountains and look for one of our most iconic creatures, the duck-billed platypus. The platypus keeps warm through two layers of fur – a dense waterproof outer coat and a grey woolly underfur to provide insulation. This dense coat protects the animal from extreme cold by trapping insulated air. Next on the Winter Wonders trail, visit the LEGO brick sailor, who will pay tribute to Australian Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson and his voyage on the Aurora. Mawson survived in the Antarctic from January 1912 to December 1913.
Did you know great white sharks can be found in cold waters? They have the unique ability to elevate and maintain body temperatures as much as 13 degrees above the ambient water temperature. One striking feature of these warm-bodied wonders is that their fl anks and most internal organs are warm, while the heart and gills are at environmental temperatures. Sydney Aquarium also has the shortest species of penguins known as little penguins or fairy penguins. The penguins are locals and not cut out for a life among snow and ice, but their relatives, the emperor penguins, live in probably the most extreme conditions endured by any warm-blooded animal on earth. They even breed in the depths of the Antarctic winter at temperatures of minus 30 degrees and winds of more than 200 kilometres an hour. Conditions that would freeze human fl esh in seconds.
FREEZING: The weedy sea dragon.
Next, you’ll fi nd the resident ice fi sh, the marbled rock cod. Touch the tank to feel just how cold they like it. Ice fi sh have the coldest blood of any fi sh species.
Their blood contains natural antifreeze and they can withstand temperatures as low as zero degrees. In the wild, they live in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters at depths between fi ve and 350 metres.
Then, discover the LEGO brick diver. Cold water robs the body’s heat 32 times faster than cold air, so diving in ice can be a dangerous activity. However, people still do it. The secret is specially adapted equipment, including a dry suit.
Many people generally think of beautiful
fi sh as being associated with warmer tropical waters, but two of the most stunning of all aquatic species, the weedy sea dragon and the leafy sea dragon, are found in the southern waters of Australia. They’re drawn to this area due to their specifi c habitat – the kelp-covered rocky reefs which fringe our continent’s southern shoreline. For your chance to win one of two family passes to Sydney Aquarium, write your name, address and telephone number on the back of an envelope and send it to The Post/Sydney Aquarium, 854 Hunter Street, Newcastle West, 2305. Entries close at 5pm on Tuesday, July 12. The winners will be notifi ed by telephone.
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