Watercolour was Henri Tebbitt’s preferred medium, although he occasionally painted in oils. He travelled widely throughout Australia, living in Brisbane and Toowoomba at times during his career. Though his pictures were very popular with the public, Tebbitt was a man of modest disposition. Speaking of his work in his autobiographical manuscript, now in the collection of the Mitchell Library, Sydney, he stated:

I have simply endeavoured, perhaps with a vision obscured, to reproduce as faithfully as I could, nature as I see it, and if my efforts are indifferent, no one regrets it more than I do.