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
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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)Â $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
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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.
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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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Portrait of an endangered scribbly gum woodland
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
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 forest...
Dialogue with a logrunner
Me: Hello little logrunner, how are things with you? Logrunner: (scratch, scratch)…oh…you talking to me? Me: Yes, I’d like to know what it’s like to be a logrunner. Logrunner: (cocks her head, looks at me with a big dark eye) Not sure if I’ve really thought about it....
Blackbutt beasties, and forest portrait number two
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...
How to draw a forest (Part 2) – my first forest portrait
When it comes to doing art I’m largely self taught, so I always hesitate to call myself an artist. But I do like a challenge. Trying to draw forest portraits would require me to brush up on everything I had ever learnt about colour and tone and whatever else goes into...
How to draw a forest (Part 1) – or seeing the wood for the trees
Look for depictions of forests in art and you won’t find many. Sure, there are plenty of landscapes with trees. But look closer and you’ll notice there are only a few trees, probably to one side of the picture, and the rest is open country. Or it is a parkland, some...
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.
Read a sample
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