Paperbark Writer

Australian nature meets science and art

By Paula Peeters

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The scribbly gum woodland at Freshwater

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.

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...

Lullabies for life

Lullabies for life

A pair of fairy wrens are in our garden - their calls are shrill, sweet and curiously penetrating. And for the first time ever, I think they might stay. This is terribly exciting. When we moved here eight years ago, we transformed a backyard of kikuyu grass into a...

Books: Wild – An elemental journey

Books: Wild – An elemental journey

Wild: An elemental journey flees headlong into the jungles of the Amazon, before trekking to the stark whiteness of the Canadian Arctic, plunging into the ultramarine depths of the ocean, expanding out into the stillness of the Australian deserts, and then ascending...

Christmas curlew update

Christmas curlew update

Earlier in the year, I brought you the story of Rowena and Herbie, the courting stone-curlews from Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary near Canberra. Their budding romance was mentioned in 'Rewilding Weeloo, the enigmatic bush stone-curlew'. Well, as a special Christmas...

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.

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

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Magnets

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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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To a nature journaling workshop!

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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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