We are an Australian couple who enjoy Designing and Creating Fine Quality Artist Bears as a team.

Many people ask us how we can operate as a team on one bear. We share a great love of bears and enjoy creating bears with special appeal and true character. We spend many hours working together to develop our initial ideas, through to the construction and finishing. This gives our bears a truly unique and individual quality, in that we both have an influence on the finished bear, two artists in one!

We live in the beautiful island state of Tasmania. A wonderful place to make bears and a great place to visit.We offer a variety of styles, from traditional to more contemporary characters. Our bears range in size from 6 to 38 inches.

Some of our earlier work can be seen in "The Complete book of Australian and New Zealand Teddy Bear Artists" by Jennifer Laing. We advertise in Bear Facts Review on a regular basis, and attend approximately 4 Bear Shows a year.
We have received a number of awards in recent times, at the Premier Bear Affair (Sydney, Australia) and at the Tasmananian Bear Fair. Our work also features in the third edition of Linda Mullins "A tribute to Bear Artists".

We were also delighted to receive several awards from around the www. More recently Artist of the Month. Many thanks to all our collectors.

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