The Rainforest Birds of Gondwana
Here are the rainforest birds of Gondwana – starting with the top of the tree canopy, and ending with the forest floor: The call of the Pied Currawong echoes through the forest, loud musical wails and...
View ArticleWinter wanderings
Winter field trips can be cold but exhilarating. This winter I had the good fortune to travel down to northern Victoria and southern New South Wales, to reacquaint myself with those landscapes under...
View ArticleStories from the Wildworld – on sale now
The books have arrived! A big van pulled up in the driveway today, and now we have many boxes of Stories from the Wildworld piled up in our house. Wooopeee! I now pronounce Stories from the Wildworld,...
View ArticleBeechmont Nature Journal, April 30th 2019
Autumn in Beechmont brings clear, calm days. Rose robins squawk softly from the trees, while yellow robins inspect the pea and bean seedlings emerging in the vegie patch. Soft rain and bright sunshine...
View ArticleBeechmont Nature Journal 22nd September 2019
In this cartoon, spring has come to Beechmont, while Binna Burra has become like Shangri-la: mysterious and inaccessible.
View ArticleImpressions of Barambah
I visited the Barambah Environmental Education Centre (about 50 km west of Gympie, Queensland) back in August. I ran a nature journaling workshop for the staff, and did some field work for a series of...
View ArticleReasons to be cheerful
I'm finding it a bit hard to be cheerful these days. Heat, smoke, prolonged drought and more fires. Frustration at the lack of action on climate change, while its effects are becoming more and more...
View ArticleFinding joy and calm
The earth seems to be shifting under our feet. Nothing seems certain, and it’s easy to let our anxieties and fears grow. That is, if we focus on human affairs only. Because out there, in nature, the...
View ArticleFree froggy colouring book to download
Follow the Southern Bell Frog's journey, from tiny egg, to tadpole, to a young frog, in this beautiful colouring book. Yours to download for free!
View ArticleNew! Australian robin designs
I don’t know what it is about these little birds, but I always find myself coming back to robins. So as June was coming to a close, something compelled me to make this Australian robin design. It shows...
View ArticleFree grassy woodland colouring-in sheet
Bimblebox Nature Refuge protects a large tract of grassy woodland that provides habitat for many native animal species. Bimblebox, ironbarks, rusty jackets, brigalow and many other tree and shrub...
View ArticleNew! Fairy-wrens of Australia t-shirt design
OK folks, thanks to your enthusiastic response to last week’s Australian robin design, you have given me inspiration to make more silly little bird cartoons. I draw them because they make me smile, so...
View ArticleBeechmont Nature Journal update & announcing the Gold Coast Nature Journal Group
Spring is stirring up here in the mountains. It was great to walk the tracks of Binna Burra again, after nearly a year of Lamington National Park being closed. So lovely to lose myself in those forests...
View Article‘Sketchbook series’ card collection now available
I’ve just created 5 new card designs, drawing inspiration from my sketchbooks of Australian nature. Magpies in Beechmont, the beautiful Glossy Black-cockatoo, a reflection on the rainforest of Binna...
View ArticleThe helpful and benignly addictive world of INaturalist.
The Navajo recognized and remembered over 700 different types of insects, to three levels of classification.1 Most of these insects did not have a practical ‘use’ for the Navajo (e.g. food). The vast...
View ArticleComing soon: the ‘Wondrous Box-Gum Grassy Woodlands’ colouring book
I’m very pleased to announce that a new free colouring book will be available to download soon. Wondrous Box-Gum Grassy Woodlands: A colouring exploration of a diverse ecosystem was commissioned by the...
View ArticleGet your wetland on with this fab new colouring competition!
Another art commission that I’m currently working on is a colouring book about Dynamic Lagoons. These are very special wetlands (and another threatened ecological community) that occur in the upland...
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