Brenda Woods
The Ladies who paint instead of lunch.
A group of very talented ladies who spend their Thursdays together at a local community hall sharing their passion for art and creating beautiful painting.
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I approached this group of lovely ladies in the hope of maybe even getting one of the talented artist to consider donating a piece for the exhibition. I pulled out my computer and loaded the 1000 images of orangutans for them to look at.
They all gathered around and with the ooh ahs and squeels of excitement over these gorgoeus creatures I knew then I had them hooked.
The all agreed to do their best to produce a piece for the exhibition.
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Now it was just up to the fighting of who would get which orangutan as their subject. Some were greedy and ended up with 3 of them much to my delight.
The Ladies from Goulburn come from many different backgrounds all retired now and many have sold painting for years but still don’t call themselves professionals though in my mind they should, so you wont see their websites or exhibition lists here.
If any one is interested in asking any of these talented ladies to do a commission piece for them please contact Jessica Warwick at jw-jb@hotmail.com who will be most happy to forward on your details.
TEMON
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Tiny, Tough, and Full of Hope
On 17 November 2013, the IAR rescue team responded to a call from the Forestry Department (BKSDA) about a young orangutan being illegally kept in Betenung village, southeast of Ketapang. When they arrived, they found Temon, a two-year-old female orangutan, living in a palm oil worker’s home.
According to the owner, he found Temon in a plantation nursery where her mother supposedly dropped her and ran away—a highly unlikely story. Orangutan mothers are fiercely protective and would never abandon their infants. It's far more likely that her mother was killed during the capture, a tragic pattern in the illegal pet trade.
Temon had lived in the house for four months. At night, she was kept in a cage under the house, and during the day she roamed indoors, bathed like a child and fed only rice. When she grew too strong to manage, the owners contacted the BKSDA, who then arranged her handover.
After arriving at IAR’s centre in Ketapang, Temon completed her quarantine period and joined baby school. She quickly impressed the team with her independence, always climbing high in the trees and avoiding the ground. Despite being small for her age, she’s bold, curious, and full of promise.
Temon is especially fond of vegetables—particularly the ones other babies won’t eat! She rarely cries or seeks constant attention from carers and prefers exploring her world from the treetops with quiet determination.
With time, care, and continued forest school training, Temon is on a path toward a future in the wild—exactly where she belongs.
