Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney's Finest Natural History Painters | Vanessa Finney
The fascinating story of the Scott sisters, who transformednature into art in their extraordinary paintings of butterflies and moths, istold here for the first time. Withtheir collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scottentered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two ofnineteenth-century Australia's most prominent natural history painters. Transformations tells the complete story of theScott sisters for the first time - their early lives in colonial Sydney, theirtraining as naturalists and artists on the isolated Ash Island in the HunterRiver near Newcastle, and their professional triumphs. This is a rare pictorialrecord of two talented and determined women who transformed nature into art intheir extraordinary paintings of Australian butterflies and moths.
Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, Colonial Sydney's Finest Natural History Painters | 
