Charcoal, handmade paints over a vintage cadastral map of Lamington.

Acrylic inks over ortho-photographic map of North Tamborine.

Acrylic inks over orthophotographic map of North Tamborine

Acrylic inks over ortho-photographic map of North Tamborine

Natural inks, gouache, graphite paint and watercolour over map of Lane Cove National Park

Acrylic pen pastel on paper

Natural inks and gouache over cadastral map of Mount Barney.

Graphite paint and gouache on vintage map of Phillip Island

Mixed media drawing on paper

Banksia serrata plants generally become fire tolerant by five to seven years of age in that they are able to resprout afterwards.As with other species in the genus, B. serrata trees are naturally adapted to the presence of regular bushfires and exhibit a formof serotiny known as pyriscence. The seedbank in the plant's canopy is released after bushfire.

Mixed media drawing on paper

Angophora costata- commonly known as Sydney red gum, rusty gum or smooth-barked apple, is a species of tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. Reaching 30 m (100 ft) in height, the species has distinctive smooth bark that is pinkish or orange-brown when new and fades to grey with age.

Mixed media drawing on paper

Nothofagus cunninghamii, commonly known as myrtle beech or Tasmanian myrtle, is an ancient relict that was present in Gondwanan rainforests and today grows across the Southern Hemisphere.

Nothofagus - from the Greek nothos, meaning false and fagus, referring to the original belief that this genus was related to Northern Hemisphere Beech (Fagus) trees cunninghamii - after the 19th Century botanist Allan Cunningham

Mixed media drawing on canvas

Under a takayna moon

The artists gather

To bathe in the awe

Of stringybark giants

Drinking in

The mystery

Mixed media drawing on canvas

Under a takayna moon

we stretch our arms wide

fifteen souls reaching

to unfurl you

in an embrace

that does not stem

the flow of tears

Mixed media drawing on canvas

Under a takayna moon

giants loom above

memory of the felling time

whispering through the branches

The missing

a gap in the sky

Mixed media drawing on canvas

Under a takayna moon

The song of the night

rich

with cries of survival

blends

with scent laden mist

seeps into the blood

the cup filled

Mixed media painting on hand made Nepalese paper

In the Palm Grove section of Tamborine National Park. Pademelons scurry, Wompoo pigeons and Cat birds call, at the bottom of the track at the bottom the Picabeen palms dominate. Their aerial roots exposed above the soil surface to absorb oxygen when the soil is flooded or waterlogged.

Watercolour on cotton rag

I had noticed that at the end of the knoll there are two trees whose branches had fused together. I thought of them as needles, portals to the sky. Later I came to know they had much significance to the first nations peoples of this country- to the Wangerriburra people and those travelling through this land.

BEAUDESERT SIGNPOST, 2021

pen and ink on topographic map,

I have been driving the road to Beaudesert off an on since I was a youth project worker for Beaucare in the 1990s. As I came to know more about the Indigenous culture of this region I began to understand the significance of the area I drove through every day.

This Ring Tree would have been a sign post. It is said to be a border tree for five tribes.

mixed media drawing over topographic map

First Nation Australians used to weave together the branches of the young trees in order to mark places of significance. As the trees grew, the branches then fused together to form rings.

So-called “ring” trees are significant cultural markers for Aboriginal communities.

water colour on cotton rag

In December 2019 we found ourselves on a road trip from Queensland via Canberra and Melbourne and then onto Coorong, Adelaide, Sydney and back home.

Leaving Armidale to come home via the Rainforest Way my heart broke.

The ground an ashen white, the limbs bare and not a bird in sight.

watercolour, ink and graphite

Diamond Head as far as they eye can see was burnt. Charred trees, leaves turned brown, trunks laying on the ground, the ground ashen. However, signs of life stoirred, new growth peeped out from charcoaled limbs vibrant red, vivid green grass spikes poked through the ash and grass trees shooting new growth to the horizon.

Watercolour on cotton rag paper

One afternoon during November 2019 the fires were burning in Lamington and Main range National Parks. The air was crackling, the sky was glowing orange through the smoky haze.

It was at once unusual, beautiful and somewhat terrifying.

water colour and ink on cotton rag paper

In 2019, 9000ha - 84 percent - of the Crowdy Bay National park was impacted by fire.

mixed media on canvas with collaged map

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Oil on Canvas.

acrylic on canvas

mixed media on canvas with maps

THE FLAME TREE, 2010

pastel, acrylic and graphite

Mixed media painting on hand made paper

Mixed media painting on hand made paper

charcoal and pastel collage

pastel on paper

charcoal and pastel on acid free paper

charcoal on paper

charcoal, pastel and watercolour

charcoal and pastel on acid free paper