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Helen Ansell Art Western Australian artist whose paintings feature the native wildflowers, plants and animals of WA.

I’ve decided to leave my $1,000 competition open a little longer!With visitors still making their way through Mullewa at...
03/10/2026

I’ve decided to leave my $1,000 competition open a little longer!

With visitors still making their way through Mullewa at the end of wildflower season, I wanted to give a few more people the chance to enter.

You can now enter to win $1,000 to spend at helenansell.com, with the winner drawn on 11 October.

To be in the draw:
Follow me on Instagram

Join my email list here:
http://eepurl.com/hdeVXv

And if you’re already on my email list, you’re already in the draw. You don’t need to sign up again. Everyone on my list is automatically included in my giveaways throughout the year.

Good luck!

When I was packing up Dad’s home after he died, I opened the linen cupboard and found his emu eggs tucked away inside. I...
02/10/2026

When I was packing up Dad’s home after he died, I opened the linen cupboard and found his emu eggs tucked away inside. I had no idea they were there and very nearly broke them.

It was such a Dad thing to find.

Those eggs ended up becoming part of Bush Gems, alongside honey ants, cogla, mulla mulla, everlasting daisies and wattles. These were all things tied to the country we knew so well and the life we shared around Ululla and Mullewa.

Dad spent years collecting native seed and learning the plants around him. He knew their names, where they grew and when they would appear, and so much of that knowledge became part of my own way of seeing the landscape.

Bush Gems is part of my exhibition, A Walk in the Wildflowers – A Homage to My Father and the Country We Love. The exhibition grew from the things I found after Dad passed away, memories of the places we had walked together and our deep shared love of this place we call home

The original is still available.

Bush Gems
70 × 70 cm
$4,800

Currently showing at my gallery in Mullewa.

I’ve been working on something very close to my heart (this pic is of the work in progress!)Over the past little while I...
01/10/2026

I’ve been working on something very close to my heart (this pic is of the work in progress!)

Over the past little while I’ve shared glimpses of the original painting I’m creating for our Jarrah forests, and I’ve been so touched by the comments and messages I’ve received about it. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to write to me, ask about the painting and share their own connection to these forests.

On Saturday 10 October, I’ll be at the LEAP Extravaganza at the Quindanning Hotel for an afternoon bringing together artists, conservationists and the community in support of our Jarrah forests.

These forests are extraordinary. They are home to an incredible diversity of plants and animals and are important for biodiversity, water, carbon storage, recreation and the generations who will come after us.

The threats facing them extend far beyond the trees themselves, and this is a cause that affects all of us.

I wanted to contribute in the way I know best - through my art.

I’m creating an original painting featuring some of the plants and animals that call these forests home. From 10 October, the original painting will be available to bid on through my website, with the proceeds going to this incredibly worthy cause.
I’ll share the auction link as soon as bidding opens.

If you can come along to the LEAP Extravaganza, I would absolutely love to see you there.

There’ll be talks, market stalls, art, community groups and live music from with the Honourable MLC speaking and Ricky England involved in the day.

You’ll also be able to meet people working to protect these forests, including and the wider forest movement including

There are also free bus tours to see strip-mining, rehabilitation and the beautiful Jarrah Forest for yourself. Places are limited and bookings are essential.

LEAP Extravaganza
Saturday 10 October 2026
12–4pm
Quindanning Hotel

https://www.trybooking.com/au/event/1638423

One of the things I love most about wildflower season around Mullewa is that the colour never arrives all at once. The l...
30/09/2026

One of the things I love most about wildflower season around Mullewa is that the colour never arrives all at once. The landscape keeps changing.

This year we have moved through great sweeps of white everlastings, brilliant pink native foxglove, yellow and gold flowering plants, intricate red and purple spider orchids, wreath flowers in soft pinks and creams, and now the blues appearing as the season moves towards its final stages.

Even the way these plants produce colour is fascinating. Everlastings belong to the daisy family, Asteraceae. Their papery colour comes from specialised bracts surrounding clusters of tiny florets, helping create that distinctive everlasting appearance.

The wreath flower, Lechenaultia macrantha, grows outwards from a central rootstock. As older growth in the centre dies away, the plant develops the circular form that gives it its name. It also has a liking for disturbed ground, which is why spectacular displays can appear along roadsides and tracks around Pindar.

Then there are the orchids. Many Western Australian terrestrial orchids, including spider orchids, grow from underground tubers and can remain almost invisible for much of the year before producing their extraordinary spring flowers.

This season around Mullewa has also brought native cornflowers, native foxglove, goodenia, pink velleia, bush pomegranate, velvet firebush, Mullewa rose, Wells’ dampiera and copper wire daisies.

That is what makes this country so fascinating to me. You can return to the same patch of bush only a few weeks later and find an entirely different palette waiting for you.

These are just some of the colours Mullewa has given us in 2026.

30/09/2026

Did you know that around 6000 plants and animals are endemic to the Jarrah Forrests that we are letting an American company on the other side of the world mine for aluminium (which can be mined anywhere else in the world) and ulimately destroy our beautiful natural habitat?! Do you want to help protect the worlds ONLY Jarrah Forrest in Western Australia and all the creatures that live in there and call it their home? Please let me know what else you would like me to include in this painting, do your own research on how you can be involved over at www.stopforestmining.org.au and please spread the word!

When Dad's sheep station at Ululla was no longer viable, he turned to collecting native seed. What began as a new source...
27/09/2026

When Dad's sheep station at Ululla was no longer viable, he turned to collecting native seed. What began as a new source of income soon became a lifelong fascination with the incredible diversity of Western Australia's native plants. I spent countless hours travelling across the station with him, collecting seed by hand and learning to recognise the subtle differences between species that, at first glance, all seemed the same.

Looking closely at each seed changed the way I saw the bush. Every shape, texture and colour belonged to a different plant, each perfectly adapted to survive in the harsh conditions of the outback. Those years spent collecting seed together became the inspiration for Desert Seeds.

This painting holds a special place in my heart because it reflects not only Dad's extraordinary knowledge of the landscape, but also the countless hours we spent learning about it together.

Desert Seeds original for sale and is now available as archival fine art prints and canvas prints in its original rectangular format, as well as two square editions featuring different sections of the artwork.

For the first time in a long time, I have a small collection of original paintings available, and I’d love one of them t...
26/09/2026

For the first time in a long time, I have a small collection of original paintings available, and I’d love one of them to find its way onto your wall.

So I’m giving one person a $1,000 voucher to spend at helenansell.com.

You could put it towards one of the originals from my latest exhibition, A Walk in the Wildflowers, or use it on anything else you’ve had your eye on from my collection.

To enter:

• Join my mailing list!
• Make sure you’re following me here on Instagram

Then swipe through to see just a few of the originals currently available.

There’s something very different about living with an original painting. You can see the texture, the brushwork and all the little details that never quite translate through a screen.

And $1,000 towards one is a pretty good place to start!

Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/hdeVXv](http://eepurl.com/hdeVXv

25/09/2026

Thank you to everyone so far for their suggestions on what should be included in this! Please keep them coming and I'll be posting regular updates over the next few weeks - watch this space...

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