Paperbark Writer
Australian nature meets science and art
By Paula Peeters
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Impressions 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 illustrations for a little book about the centre. Here are some...
Beechmont Nature Journal 22nd September 2019
In this cartoon, spring has come to Beechmont, while Binna Burra has become like Shangri-la: mysterious and inaccessible.
Beechmont Nature Journal 14th September 2019
A cartoon about last weekend’s unprecedented fire at Binna Burra. It’s wobbly because that’s how I feel right now. But all around our house the birds are singing and I heard a koala bellow just before I posted this. So life goes on, and I’m hopeful for the future.
Materialism
These mountains are my home, these forests are my refuge, these rainforests are my sacred place. But climate change is taking this away from me. If my house burns down, I can rebuild it somewhere else. But I can’t rebuild this landscape the same as it was. Not while the weather continues its relentless march into new territory that’s hostile to humans and rainforests alike.
Ideas sheet for nature journaling
In the spirit of sharing something handwritten and messy, and to give you more ideas for your nature journaling adventures, here’s an ‘Ideas sheet’ I created a few months ago. It was only meant to be a ‘draft’ that I was going to work up into something ‘nice’. But I ran out of time, started giving it out at workshops, and people seem to like it. Maybe they find it helpful because it’s messy? I don’t know, but I’d love to hear your thoughts.
The Rainforest Ball
How did the rainforest trees find which animals could carry their seeds far and wide? By inviting everyone to The Rainforest Ball, of course! A story to celebrate National Tree Day, from my book ‘Stories from the Wildworld’.
The next ‘Tree hollows are animal homes’ design is here!
#3 Eucalypt Woodlands of south-eastern Australia
‘Tree hollows are animal homes’ is a series of designs inspired by the relationship between the many Australian animal species that use hollows and the trees that provide them.
This design is available on posters, art prints and other goodies from my Redbubble store.
Bulk orders of the detailed poster design can be arranged by emailing paula.peeters@paperbarkwriter.com Click here for wholesale prices.
A simplified version of this design is also available as a Organic Cotton Tea Towel.
Thanks to Prof Don Butler for providing the vegetation map and data.
Read more about this design here.
Previous designs in the series: ‘Tree hollows are animal homes’
#1 Eucalypt Open Forests, south-eastern Australia
#2 Eucalypt Tall Open Forests, south-eastern Australia
Click here for wholesale prices for educational poster ‘Tree hollows are animal homes #1 and #2’.
These designs are available on posters, prints and other goodies via my Redbubble store.
A walk in the mountain forests
My nature journal of Binna Burra, Beechmont and beyond
Discover the richness of the mountain forests through the playful, diverse and beautiful pages of Paula’s nature journal.
Paperback, 17 x 22.3 cm, 206 pages, full colour throughout with over 196 original illustrations. Printed in Australia on recycled paper.
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Organic cotton tea towels
Greeting cards
Magnets
Books
Redbubble store
Here you can purchase clothing, prints, posters and other goods with my designs. They’re printed on demand and shipped straight to you from Redbubble.
Buy selected garments through my Redbubble store and 25 % of the retail price will be donated to environmental and animal welfare charities
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Nature journaling workshop at Binna Burra; Photos by Renata Buziak
Escape…
Into the Wildworld, and discover The Kinship of All. Read Stories of the Wildworld.
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