Paperbark Writer
Australian nature meets science and art
By Paula Peeters
New Australian Magpie sticker sheet
Intelligent, lovable, great singers and snappy dressers…. the Australian Magpie is a much-loved part of many people’s lives. Share some magpie joy with these kiss-cut, vinyl stickers. Printed in Queensland.
Australian Magpie sticker sheet $5.99
For wholesale enquiries email me at paula.peeters@paperbarkwriter.com
New ‘Inspirational Birds’ magnet collection
Bring some wild wisdom into your life with these ‘Inspirational Birds’ fridge magnets. Made in Australia and featuring some of our favourite birds.
Light will Return (Eastern Yellow Robin) $5.95
Magpies make it Better (Australian Magpie) $5.95
Drongo of Happiness (Spangled Drongo) $5.95
Rare Bird (Night Parrot) $5.95
Turkey Wisdom (Australian Brush-turkey) $5.95
Collection of 5 magnets: $25.00
For wholesale enquiries email me at paula.peeters@paperbarkwriter.com
New ‘Kingfishers of Australia’ design
This colourful design celebrates Australia’s 10 species of kingfisher, including 2 species of kookaburra. (In case you’re wondering, the Laughing Kookaburra is the kookaburra species familiar to most people, and the one with the ‘laughing’ call. The Blue-winged Kookaburra lives in Northern Australia, and has a call that’s been described as ‘appalling’. You may think that’s unfair until you hear a group of Blue-winged Kookaburras settling down for the night, and mistakenly think it’s a raucous pack of demons.)
This design is now available as an Organic Cotton Tea Towel and a Postcard.
Buy ‘Kingfishers of Australia’ stickers here!
This design is also available on t-shirts, hoodies, posters, art prints and other goodies from my Redbubble store.
For wholesale enquiries email me at paula.peeters@paperbarkwriter.com
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.
‘Tree hollows’ Organic Cotton Tea Towels
A perfect gift for your chainsaw-loving friends!
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.
Large postcards (A5)
Subtropical Rainforest Birds and ‘Tree hollows are animal homes’ series
These large postcards are gorgeous in their detail and brightness. Use as spot-it cards or souvenirs, they also make cute, affordable gifts to send to friends and family.
A5 size (14.8 x 21 cm). Printed in Australia on recycled card.
Standard postcards (A6)
Owls, Cockatoos, Robins, Fairy-wrens and Possums of Australia
I’ve tweaked some familiar designs to create a series of postcards. Cute, affordable gifts to send to friends and family.
A6 size (10.5 x 14.8 cm). Printed in Australia on recycled card.
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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Tree hollows are animal homes
‘Tree hollows are animal homes’ is a new series of designs inspired by the relationship between the many Australian animal species that use hollows and the trees that provide them. This first set of 5 designs includes illustrations of 19 animal species that use...
The Satin Bowerbird
This issue of A cartoon guide to Australian Ecology explores the life of the Satin Bowerbird in a series of cartoons. The Satin Bowerbird has many Australian Aboriginal names, but I've used the Yugambeh name 'Dooloom' here, only because I live on the Country of the...
Australian forests and where to find them
That’s me, in the orange bus. It’s the 1970’s, this bus is our family campervan, and we’re driving through wet sclerophyll forest north of Healesville, in Victoria.
Welcome to the first issue of A Cartoon Guide to Australian Ecology: Australian forests and where to find them (Part One). In this blog series I’ll explore ecological patterns and processes big and small, using science and my own personal journey to tell the story, all through the visual language of cartoons.
Let’s get started!
Nature journaling Shakespeare’s plants
I'm very excited to announce 'Nature Journaling Shakespeare's Plants', four school holiday sessions for ages 8 to 16 years, at the lovely Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha. Discover and record some of Shakespeare’s favourite plants by creating your own nature...
Unleash your creativity with this simple handmade book
A simple concertina book can be a great way to record your next holiday, road trip or nature journaling adventure.
I’ve also found that simple concertina books can unlock inspiration in kids and adults when a flat blank journal page may be too daunting or dull. Perhaps it’s the tactile nature of these books, the way that people tend to open and close them, and look at them from all angles, that stimulates different neural pathways in the brain.
A simple concertina book is essentially just a strip of robust paper (high GSM watercolour paper or mixed media paper works well) that is folded to form multiple small pages. But it feels like a little book, that unfolds alluringly, to tell a story….
Why do I self-publish?
“It’s a book to be shared and taken into your soul!” – Amanda
That’s a reader’s impression of my most recent book ‘A walk in the mountain forests’, sent to me this morning via email. Thanks Amanda!
I offered the manuscript of ‘A walk in the mountain forests’ to four major publishers, and all four rejected it. Then I found an Australian company who could print it at a price I could afford (that’s Fast Press Print in Nerang, Qld), and I went ahead and published it myself. Now this little book is bringing joy to many readers, and sharing the wonders of nature with others gives me a great deal of joy and satisfaction too.
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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