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The scribbly gum woodland at Freshwater

The scribbly gum woodland at Freshwater

by Paula Peeters | Jan 26, 2016 | Forest portraits, Wildlife illustration

Freshwater National Park smells burnt, but it looks lush green. I can hear the sleepy chortles of lorikeets, somewhere up in the bloodwoods. It’s late afternoon, on a hot January day. Maybe they’ve had too much sun, or too much nectar, or both. Scribbly gums rise like...
Nothofagus: a portrait of the Antarctic beech forest

Nothofagus: a portrait of the Antarctic beech forest

by Paula Peeters | Aug 31, 2015 | Forest portraits, Wildlife illustration

Nothofagus, the southern beech, has always held a certain mystique for me. As a child I was an avid reader, and lived in an imaginary world. I was always searching for the forests of Middle Earth, Narnia and Sherwood. Stands of Nothofagus came much closer to this...
Enter the jungle – a portrait of wet rainforest

Enter the jungle – a portrait of wet rainforest

by Paula Peeters | Aug 26, 2015 | Forest portraits, Wildlife illustration

I explored my first rainforests when I was 14 years old and the experience probably changed my life. On a cold autumn morning at Binna Burra, I awaited the dawn bird walk, an enormous pair of very unsophisticated binoculars slung around my neck. Dingoes were howling...
Portrait of an endangered scribbly gum woodland

Portrait of an endangered scribbly gum woodland

by Paula Peeters | Aug 20, 2015 | Forest portraits, Wildlife illustration

Drive from Brisbane to the Sunshine Coast, between the Glasshouse Mountains and Bribie Island, and you will pass through vast areas of exotic pine plantations. But it wasn’t always this way. Once there were miles of scribbly gum woodlands with a diverse heathy...
Sunlight and shadows – a dry sclerophyll forest portrait

Sunlight and shadows – a dry sclerophyll forest portrait

by Paula Peeters | Aug 11, 2015 | Forest portraits, Wildlife illustration

  The most widespread and abundant forest type in Australia is probably dry sclerophyll forest – the tallest trees are eucalypts and their relatives (Corymbia, Angophora, Lophostemon), and below them are sparse shrubs, heath and/or grasses and herbs. This...
Blackbutt beasties, and forest portrait number two

Blackbutt beasties, and forest portrait number two

by Paula Peeters | Jul 26, 2015 | Forest portraits, Tales of science, Wildlife illustration

Many beautiful beasties live in wet sclerophyll forest, including those that dwell or nest in the hollows of venerable old trees. Gliding possums that eat leaves, blossoms or trees sap; owls, tree-creepers and parrots; bats, snakes and antechinuses¹.  As I started...
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