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P. Brent Harvey with his winning oil painting, Dusky Moorhen. A virtual unknown, he got his start as an artist with a painting of a frozen kingfisher.Out of the wetlands they've come 300 in all - lured by a total of $75,000 in prize money.Australia's wildlife artists, hitherto considered a rare, if not endangered species, now have a competition of their own - and one which organisers boast is the richest annual art prize in Australia.The inaugural James Hardie touring exhibition opens at the State Library today. In pride of place is P. Brent Harvey's oil painting, Dusky Moorhen, winner of the $50,000 first prize and about to be translated into a limited-edition which will sell for $150 a copy. June 16, 1991. (Photo by Alexander James Towle/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).