Fairy Wren on Gold Arlo Mercia Original painting for sale

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Fairy Wren on Gold

Arlo Mercia

2026 • Australia • Watercolor, Ink on Cardboard

5 x 5 in

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Australia

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Artwork details

Medium : Watercolor, Ink on Cardboard
Other details : Unmounted artwork. Mounting and/or framing available on request.
Dimensions : 5.3x4.7in

About this artwork

The Superb Fairy Wren is much loved for its bright colours and energetic hopping and twittering. During the breeding season the males sport distinctive bright blue feathers. Females are brown, as are the males during winter. They often occur in family groups, and raise two or three broods of chicks as a family group.

When I was in Tokyo in 2025, I visited Ozuwashi - the paper store that opened in 1653. There I bought many beautiful papers, including… a set of Sunshoan Shikishi gold cards. These cards have been used in Japan for calligraphy and painting since the 8th century.

The card can be framed to suit your decore, or purchased with a miniature easel for display. I use archival quality handmade Japanese inks from Kobaien in Nara, and handmade Italian watercolour paints from A. Gallo in Assisi. The high quality artisinal products used in these paintings will improve with age, ensuring that your painting is an investment which will last for generations.

Arlo Mercia

Australia

Credentials

Featured in gallery curations
Works on commission

Arlo Mercia, a full-time artist, explores the gentle elegance of the natural world through Oriental brush painting. She has been honoured with the artist name on her seal stamp: Tao Ya Li and her work is featured on the website of Kobaien Inks of Japan. Using the venerable Four Treasures - ink stick, ink stone, brushes, and paper - she expertly marries the Gongbi technique of fine-line painting with the expression of her subjects' unique essence. Her art, meticulously planned yet seemingly spontaneous, captures not the objective reality of her subjects but their inherent spirit, evoking a soothing tranquillity in viewers.

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Fairy Wren on Gold

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