Prior to Good Friday 2022 I was approached by the owners of the wonderful local toy shop, ‘The 3 Cheeky Monkeys’ in Yarragon about illustrating a colouring in competition page for the Yarragon Good Friday Appeal for the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Each child (or rather their parent or guardian) contributed a gold coin donation with each completed colouring in page returned to the shop and on Good Friday three names were pulled from a hat and awarded gift vouchers to spend at the toy shop. The toy shop was decorated with all the beautifully coloured pictures for the weeks leading up to Easter and an excited buzz filled the store as children proudly showed their loved ones their unique contributions each time they visited the shop.

I designed the illustration of two children and the generic Easter animals, bunnies and hens, surrounded by Easter eggs, to represent the bucolic rural life children experience in the region and included the rolling Strzelecki ranges in the background which lie to the south of the Yarragon township.