Paperbark Writer
Australian nature meets science and art
By Paula Peeters
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The ghosts of Oolambeyan
They look back at me, these opulent rams, their pale blunt faces and curling horns embedded in outrageous excesses of wool. Long dead now, once they were the pride of this place. Now they stare out of black and white photos, with faux-painted backgrounds,...
The Osprey
The osprey sees all. High above the town on a metal wire bowl, atop a mobile phone tower. From her crookedly pile of driftwood nest, she surveys the scene. A scattering of fibro shacks, low blocky brick apartment buildings, squat lowset brick houses, clustered near...
A fruitful partnership between trees and birds
Many rainforest trees begin their life in the beak of a wompoo fruit dove. And wompoos find it hard to survive without rainforest. This partnership is among the latest in a long series of trysts between rainforest trees and fruit-eating birds. A fruit and its seeds...
Books: Brilliant Green by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola
Imagine if the world was invaded by aliens who were of equal intelligence to us, but just did things incredibly faster. Thanks to vastly different technology and adaptations to those of humans, these aliens were able to move faster, reproduce faster, and communicate...
The scribbly gum woodland at Freshwater
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...
Sneaky snippers avoid a sticky end.
The other night, I met Mr Curly on my way to the Indian restaurant. He was hiding under a fig-leaf by the footpath, trying to look inconspicuous. But it was the shape of the figleaf that gave him away. Or what was left of it. You see, Mr Curly eats highly poisonous...
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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