The fascinating story of the Scott sisters, who transformed
nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of butterflies and moths, is
told here for the first time.
With
their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott
entered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two of
nineteenth-century Australia’s most prominent natural history painters.
Transformations tells the complete story of the
Scott sisters for the first time – their early lives in colonial Sydney, their
training as naturalists and artists on the isolated Ash Island in the Hunter
River near Newcastle, and their professional triumphs. This is a rare pictorial
record of two talented and determined women who transformed nature into art in
their extraordinary paintings of Australian butterflies and moths.
