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transform: none !important; text-shadow: 0 0 24px rgba(255, 232, 186, 0.68), 0 0 60px rgba(214, 96, 150, 0.36) !important; } }\n@media (max-width: 600px) { .prod-includes { grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr !important; } .prod-features { grid-template-columns: 1fr !important; } .prod-hero h2 { font-size: 22px !important; } .prod-hero { padding: 30px 20px !important; } }\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-hero\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"prod-hero-icon\"\u003e🐦\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"color: #ffffff !important;\"\u003eCast, Painted And Lit By Hand In A Kuranda Workshop\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: #d9c7a8 !important;\"\u003eGlenys Tarrant, 67, spent thirty years putting the goldfields churches of central Victoria back together pane by pane. She moved north at fifty-seven, and she has been casting and painting this sunbird for eight years — these are the final 368 she will ever sell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-story\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There’s a pair nesting under the eave of my front verandah, and they’ve been there eight years running. Right through the Wet, when the greens outside have gone flat and grey and the rain hasn’t stopped for a fortnight, he’s still out there at the heliconias holding himself dead still in the air. Eight years ago I decided I wanted that indoors.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite\u003e— Glenys Tarrant, Kuranda, Far North Queensland\u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eWhat Arrives\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-includes\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🐦\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne Lamp\u003c\/b\u003e \u003csmall\u003eCast from Glenys’s own mould and painted by her, one at a time\u003c\/small\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🕯\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eLight Built In\u003c\/b\u003e \u003csmall\u003eWarm LED inside the body — the colour glows from within\u003c\/small\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🔋\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eNo Cord At All\u003c\/b\u003e \u003csmall\u003eRuns on 3 x AA, so it stands where there is no power point\u003c\/small\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e📦\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003ePacked To Survive\u003c\/b\u003e \u003csmall\u003eAir cushions on every side, in a carton built for the trip\u003c\/small\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eWhy It Looks Like Two Different Objects\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-features\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🪟\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eSwitched Off, It Is A Sculpture\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark bronze base and branch, jade green over the crown, magenta at the throat, soft yellow through the breast, and wings running blue and green into magenta before going gold at the feather edges. People walk past it, and then they come back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🕯\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eSwitched On, It Stops Being An Object\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colour deepens, the blooms at the base glow from inside, and the wall behind fills with scattered warm light that shifts as you move around it. Diffusion, not a beam — the same trick a church window plays, small enough for a bedside table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🎨\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eTransparent Pigment, Not Paint\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlenys paints with transparent pigment rather than opaque colour, so the light travels through it instead of stopping at the surface. It pools a little deeper along the edge of each panel — which is why lit panels read as depth rather than flat colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e⚓\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eBuilt For The Trip, Not The Shelf\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty years of restoration taught her what happens to leadlight that moves: solder works loose, came flexes, panels rattle. This one goes into a carton in Cairns and comes out of one in Perth, four thousand kilometres away. So she casts it in resin — the way a travelling object actually wants to be built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e⚖️\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Base With Weight In It\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bronze-finish base is weighted, so the piece sits down on a sill or a bedside table instead of tipping when a sleeve catches it. It has the heft of an object in the hand, not the hollowness people expect at this price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e✋\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003eNo Two Come Out The Same\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery casting is painted by hand, panel by panel, so the colour settles slightly differently each time. Hold two side by side and you will see it. That variation is the reason she still paints them herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-expert\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: #f2ece2 !important;\"\u003e“Let me say the obvious thing before somebody else says it for me: this is not glass. I could have made it in glass — I know how. But a sunbird in lead came would be a clumsy, heavy thing, and the wing tips would need support lines running straight through the part you want to look at. A church window never moves; the wall holds it, and that is the bargain glass makes with you. A lamp is the opposite of still. The windows that turned up at my bench broken were almost never the ones sitting in a wall — they were the ones somebody had taken out of a wall. I was not going to spend thirty years learning that and then post people something built to come apart.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccite style=\"color: #d9c7a8 !important;\"\u003e \u003cb style=\"color: #ffffff !important;\"\u003eGlenys Tarrant\u003c\/b\u003e · leadlight and stained glass restoration, 30 years, central Victoria \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eWhere People Put It\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-perfect-for\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e🪟 Kitchen windowsill\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🛏 Bedside table\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e📖 Beside a reading chair\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🌧 Through the Wet\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🌟 Verandah table\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🎁 Christmas gift\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🏡 Hallway table\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e🌑 A corner that never worked\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eWhat You Are Actually Getting\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"prod-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eOne of the final 368.\u003c\/b\u003e Cast from the moulds Glenys has left and painted before the end of the season. She will keep making them for the grandkids — but not in production runs, and not online.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePainted by one person, one at a time.\u003c\/b\u003e Not printed, not transfer-applied, not sprayed. Transparent pigment laid panel by panel with a fine brush.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThirty years of glass behind it.\u003c\/b\u003e The dark lines between the panels, the way the light diffuses rather than beams — all of it comes straight out of restoring 1860s church windows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNothing to plug in.\u003c\/b\u003e Three AA batteries in the base, no cord, no power point. It can go out on the verandah table after dinner and come back in afterwards, which is what Glenys does with hers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eYours alone.\u003c\/b\u003e Hand-painted with transparent pigment, so the colour pools differently on every single casting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-guarantee\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e30 Days To Change Your Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePut it where you were planning to put it, switch it on after dark, and watch what the colour does to the wall. If it is not what you pictured, send it back within 30 days for a full refund. One email, no questions. Free shipping Australia-wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-section-title\"\u003eDetails\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"prod-specs\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCast resin, hand-painted throughout with transparent pigment; weighted bronze-finish base and branch\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDesign\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSunbird hovering with both wings swept up, perched on a branch above one open bloom and one smaller bud\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eColours\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eJade green crown, magenta throat, soft yellow breast, wings in blue, green, magenta and gold, teal tail\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25 cm \/ 9.85 in, base to wing tip\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWarm-tone LED inside the body — lights the piece from within\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSwitch\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOn \/ off\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePower\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3 x AA batteries — not included\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFinish\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTransparent pigment, hand-applied — slight variation from piece to piece\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePlacement\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWindowsill, bedside table, side table, bookshelf, verandah table or a dark corner\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCare\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDust with a dry soft brush or cloth; keep out of standing water. 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