Each piece inside Anwen was chosen to echo warmth, texture and quiet beauty. Every artwork carries its own story — colours that soften, shapes that calm, and details that reward slow looking.
🎨 About Jimmy Dvate — The Artist Behind Anadlu’s Signature Water Tanks
Jimmy Dvate is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most exceptional contemporary muralists — an artist whose work is as technically breathtaking as it is emotionally resonant.
Based in Melbourne, Dvate (pronounced “debate”) is known nationwide for transforming everyday structures into monumental celebrations of Australia’s endangered wildlife. His large-scale murals appear on silos, water towers, buildings, and public spaces across the country — always with the same intention:
to honour, protect, and draw attention to the species we stand to lose.
A perfectionist in realism, Dvate has an extraordinary ability to bring birds, flora, and native animals to life with almost photographic precision. His paintings are immediately recognisable:
• hyper-detailed
• richly coloured
• anatomically exact
• environmentally meaningful
• and emotionally powerful
His work has been featured in major public art trails, conservation campaigns, regional revitalisation projects, and has helped put several small Australian towns on the tourism map.
Dvate is not just an artist — he is an advocate.
Every mural is painted only after extensive wildlife research, consulting with conservation groups, local specialists, and sometimes species recovery teams. He paints with purpose.
And that purpose is visible at Anadlu.
Walk around each tank and you will find his signature hidden in the beauty.
🖌️ The Four Custom Anadlu Tanks — A Conservation Story Rendered in Art
When Anadlu was designed, the vision wasn’t simply to create beautiful tiny homes — it was to embed them in a meaningful landscape. Jimmy Dvate was commissioned to create four bespoke water-tank murals, each celebrating the unique native species of the region.
These artworks are not generic wildlife murals.
They are site-specific, hand-designed compositions, created just for Anadlu and inspired by the actual birds and flora found in the Beechworth region.
✨ Fire Fighting Tank — The Kingfisher & Silvereye
This towering tank is the heart of Anadlu’s outdoor art.
The brilliant blue Kingfisher and the tiny Silvereye — delicate, watchful, and fiercely protected — represent clarity, beauty, and the joy that emerges when we slow down enough to notice the small things.
✨ Anwen’s Wedgetail Eagle Tank
Australia’s most iconic bird of prey rendered at commanding scale.
Majestic, powerful, and deeply symbolic, the Wedgetail is a guardian presence watching over the land.
✨ Ceri’s Turquoise Parrot Tank
One of Australia’s most vulnerable and visually striking species.
The turquoise parrot embodies rarity — a flash of colour against quiet bushland, captured in precise, luminous detail.
✨ Eirian’s Barking Owl Tank
Silent elegance.
A nocturnal species increasingly threatened by habitat loss and recognised for its haunting, melodic call.
The Barking Owl adds mystery, softness, and a quiet night-magic to the landscape.
Every species painted is on the protected or endangered list.
Every plant surrounding them is locally accurate.
Every stroke was designed specifically for Anadlu.
These tanks are more than art — they are a story of place, conservation, and care.
🌿 Why Jimmy Dvate Matters at Anadlu
Choosing Jimmy Dvate was not simply about aesthetics.
It was about aligning with someone whose values matched the heart of Anadlu:
- respect for nature
- attention to detail
- emotional depth
- reverence for the small and endangered
- storytelling through beauty
Dvate’s work transforms the property into an open-air gallery — a place where luxury meets meaning, and where the landscape itself becomes part of the experience.
Guests don’t just see Anadlu.
They feel it — and Dvate’s art is a huge part of that feeling.
🖼️ The Artwork Inside Anwen
Inside, you’ll find a gentler kind of beauty.
Each framed photograph was captured in and around historic Beechworth — its stone, its seasons, its quiet corners, its forgotten textures.
All images were taken by a local photographer, a known recluse who prefers anonymity. Their work is intentionally uncredited — a private offering to the land they’ve lived on and loved.
Their only wish:
“Let the images speak for themselves.”
🕵️♀️ The Anadlu Art Treasure Hunt (Your Secret Gift Awaits)
If you’ve reached this page, you’ve unlocked something special.
Hidden among the frames in your home are 10 marked frames — each with a tiny dot on the frame.
Find them.
Take a selfie with each one.
Send your collection to us on Instagram @anadlu.beechworth
And as a thank-you for playing:
🎁 You’ll receive a mystery gift — a special, private reward
Think of it as a quiet wink from us to you — a way to say thank you for immersing yourself in the art of Anadlu.