I have been working each month in this reserve for the last five years, mostly on the time consuming task of removing privet on the reserve’s margins, so that the rainforest plants can regenerate. My companions in this task are tireless… Read More »Robertson Nature Reserve
Another current project is about plants designated as threatened species in the Southern Highlands of NSW. These paintings will be on show later this year, from 20-30 October, at Bowral Gallery, in the 2018 For the Love of Plants exhibition.… Read More »Threatened Species
For the last few years I have been concentrating on rainforest plants in the Robertson area – drawing and painting them and also working as a volunteer to help preserve them. My latest works are currently on show at the… Read More »Rainforest Plants
In March 2018 we spent a couple of weeks touring the North Island of New Zealand. I was, predictably, soon seeking out the native flora to draw. Many indigenous New Zealand plants are very different from what we are used… Read More »New Zealand (2018)
One of the most fascinating plant habitats I travelled through was the Nullabor. After first putting our car on the Indian Pacific train from Adelaide to Perth, we drove back from west to east, across the Nullabor, along the Eyre… Read More »The Nullabor
My travels interstate and overseas (in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand) have resulted in a set of sketchbooks and diaries, in which I recorded plants I found along the way. In 2017, as we drove north… Read More »Western Australia