maps & traces opens 8th Februray 2025 until 17th April 2025 at the Centre Beaudesert
Maps and Traces takes us on a journey into Australia’s natural history and its complex relationship with the environment.
Mixed media drawings and paintings created by Tamborine Mountain artist Bronwyn Davies, bridge the gap between past and present inviting the viewer into the dialogue.
This show features large works on paper, each celebrating iconic trees that carry stories of survival and loss and the fragility of landscapes shaped by time, tradition, and human intervention. It also includes works on vintage, travel, orthographic, cadastral and tourist maps as backgrounds for more artworks. Overlaid with images from nature they tell a deeper story. For the most part trees are the central character, a narrator of stories that have been observed, experienced and endured.
Trees are a metaphor for story keepers and maps of what is, and once was.
Davies explores stories that have been unspoken or forgotten.
In Maps and Traces, Davies uses maps, objects, stitching and installation works to mark and trace the impact of these stories
works on canvas or paper
motivated by observations of coral reefs quietly dying
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Artist Statement
Drawn from the Forest is a collection of works from various forests I have met in my travels. I say met as they each have their own identity and have left memories and marks on my psyche.
From time spent with the forest defenders in the Tarkine , Tasmania at the Bob Brown Foundation's Art for takayna event to the alpine forests of Victoria and New South Wales and back to the rainforests I am blessed to live amongst on Tamborine Mountain.
My work has become more meditative than ever. In a world buffeted by challenges returning to nature, to listen to the sound of birdcall and the wind, to notice what is flowering or what seeds are littering the forest floor is a balm for the soul.
It is a privilege to have the time and space to reflect on nature through the creation of art and an honour for me to share it with you.
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Banksia #2, 2022
Mixed media drawing on paper 89 x 73 x 4 cm
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.
The Specimen Tree, 2022 Mixed media drawing on paper Framed: 121 x 83 x 4 cm
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.
Angophoras are common around the area I grew up in the Kuringai National Park. The Darramuragal or Darug people have been in this area for thousands of years, long before the arrival of European settlers. For them the Angophora is important for the enacting of belonging between humans and trees. The space surrounding the angophora was a good place to tell stories, with the tree itself a part of stories about birth and death. A woman would sit on the roots at the base of the tree and the soul of a child would come down from the heavens through the leaves of the tree, the branches the roots and into the womb of the woman. When you die, if you ever look at an angophora, a few of them have horizontal branches, or near horizontal branches, that’s because Biamie, that’s our
creator, loves to sit in the angophoras, and that’s why the branches grow flat. So when you die, the first night you actually build a ledge there in the angophora. Then you leave the body there for the night and the soul of the person goes back into the tree, and goes up through the branches and into the leaves, and goes off into heaven in the darkness of night. And the next day you bring the body down and you cremate them.
The angophora is linked to birth, it’s linked to death and it provides us with the possum, with the bat, the fruit bat, with the birds ... it gives us so much. It’s a teller of seasons, when the angophora blossoms we know the mullet are on the run, you know there are so many things about the angophora, it’s really important for us. (Colin, Traditional Owner/Custodian) The tree in this drawing is a magnificent specimen in the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne Victoria
Entwined, 2022
Mixed media drawing on paper Framed: 89 x 69 x 4 cm
AUD 900
Entwined is inspired by a carving on the exterior of the Natural History Museum in London. Victorian explorers’ regularly unearthed new species of exotic animals and plants from all over the British Empire. In this cathedral to nature an incredible series of animal and plant ornaments, sculptures, statues and relief carvings were incorporated into the design and structure of the building.
Entwined is a reminder of our connections, reciprocity and relationship with each other and the environment.
As Indigenous philosopher Mary Graham states ‘The land, and how we treat it, is what determines our humanness ... all meaning comes from land’
Myrtle Skies, 2022
Mixed media drawing on paper Framed: 120 x 49 x 4 cm
AUD $1,850 SOLD
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
Last Stand, 2022
mixed media over colonial map of Tasmania Framed: 65 x 55 x 4 cm
AUD $750. SOLD
I will be the last stand
The one with the yellow ribbon tied to remind You
not to forget
what once was
Under a Tarkine Moon #1, 2022 Mixed media drawing on canvas 91 x 78 x 4.5 cm
AUD $850. SOLD
Under a takayna moon
The artists gather
To bathe in the awe
Of stringybark giants
Drinking in
The mystery
Under a Tarkine Moon #2, 2022 Mixed media drawing on canvas 91 x 78 x 4.5 cm
AUD $850. SOLD
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
Under a Tarkine Moon #3, 2022
Mixed media drawing on canvas 91 x 78 x 4.5 cm
AUD $850 SOLD
Under a takayna moon
giants loom above
memory of the felling time
whispering through the branches
The missing
a gap in the sky
Under a Tarkine Moon #4, 2022
Mixed media drawing on canvas 91 x 78 x 4.5 cm
AUD $850. SOLD
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
wing, 2022
mixed media on board
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450
Under your wing- I will fly
On angels wings -I will trust
With wings at my feet- I speed through this life
Winging it to who knows where.
River Red Gum, 2022 mixed media on board
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450
River Red Gums -Eucalyptus camaldulensis grow to a height of 30 metres and are thought to have a lifespan of 500 to 1000 years. This tree grows on the bank of the Murray River at Tom Groggins in Kosciuszko National Park. This is a place often associated with Ned Kelly, The Man from Snowy River - the aboriginal name for the area is the Indi.
River red gums have been used by Indigenous people for canoes, bowls, shields, and other utensils. The wood is red because it contains very high levels of chemicals such as polyphenols, which are a natural antibiotic when combined with air.
The Nest, 2022
mixed media drawing over topographic map
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450
The Nest
twig
leaf
wire
thread
three golden eggs sun warmed
wind rocked
held by strands of memory and hope on this mountain
birds of a feather, 2022
mixed media drawing on board,
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 cm
$ 450
Like the house sparrow we are introduced from England to places all over the world. We adapt, we charm, we are similar to others and yet we do not come from here. House Sparrows are actually large finches.Some believe the sparrow represents courage and caution that you should express in your life. It is thought that with the sparrow spirit guide in your life, you get the ability to express talent, intelligence, and creativity. This bird comes in your life to remind you of the importance of happiness.
To others they are a pest that competes with native birds for nesting and food.
Silver eye, 2022
mixed media on board with map collage
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450 SOLD
The silvereye (Zosterops lateralis) is a very small omnivorous bird of the south-west Pacific.In late summer silvereyes gather into flocks and many Australian birds migrate, making their way north along the coast and ranges, foraging busily during the day with much calling and quick movement through the shrubbery, then flying long distances through the night.
Most of the Tasmanian population crosses the Bass Strait (an astonishing feat for 12 cm birds weighing only a few grams) and disperses into Victoria, New South Wales, and south- eastern Queensland. The populations of these areas tend to head further north; while the northernmost birds remain resident all year round.
Blue Wren, 2022
mixed media on board
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450. SOLD
Malurus cyaneus-The Blue Wren, Australian Fairy Wren or The Superb Fairy-wren was one of the first Australian birds to be described. William Anderson, surgeon
and naturalist on Captain James Cook's third voyage, collected the first superb fairywren specimen in 1777 while traveling off the coast of eastern Tasmania, in Bruny
Island's Adventure Bay. the birds are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous, meaning that although they form pairs between one male and one female, each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such pairings. Male wrens pluck yellow petals and display them to females as part of a courtship display. Voted as Australian Bird of the Year' for 2021 by Birdlife Australia.
bower blues, 2022
mixed media on board
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450. SOLD
Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus bower at Knoll National Park Tamborine Mountain
Bower Blues
you danced for me
made a temple
a stage
on which you strutted
I was not the only one
in your harem
addicted to blue
Green Catbird, 2022
mixed media on board
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450 SOLD
The green catbird (Ailuroedus crassirostris) is a species of bowerbird found in subtropical forests along the east coast of Australia, from southeastern Queensland to southern New South Wales. It is named for its distinctive call which sounds like a cat meowing. Green catbirds are monogamous breeders. Once a female accepts a male they will mate for life. The pair bonding is maintained by the male feeding the female throughout the year, as well as by calls in duet .Male green catbirds attempt to attract mates by displaying colourful leaves, fruits, or flowers in their beaks. They do not build a bower instead they build a nest that looks like a cup composed of leaves, twigs and vines.
Spotted Pardelote, 2022
mixed media on board with Gold Leaf
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450. SOLD
Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
The Spotted Pardalote is a tiny bird usually seen foraging in the crowns of eucalypt trees, where they pluck invertebrates, especially psillids, from the leaves. The song of the Spotted Pardalote is a tinkling three or four note call seemingly repeated ad infinitum. It is such a common background sound in our eucalypt forests that it almost goes unnoticed
Masked Owl, 2022
mixed media on board with Gold Leaf
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450. SOLD
The Tasmanian Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae castanops) is a subspecies of Masked Owl which occurs only in Tasmania. Its population has been estimated to comprise approximately 500 breeding pairs. It is a large bird with a mask-like facial disc and distinctive husky, screeching call. The Tasmanian Masked Owl is an endangered vulnerable species under several environmental acts. Its habitat in the nation's largest temperate rainforest, the Heritage identified takayna has been under threat by logging and mining activity. ‘takayna / Tarkine remains today a rare gem of natural intactness in a world where the destruction of wild nature is rampant and accelerating' Bob Brown
Wongawallan winter cedar, 2022
mixed media on board
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450 SOLD
Wongawallen was an aboriginal outlaw, a hero of the Wangerriburra. On his death in 1879 a great corroboree was held at a bora ring at the north western foot of this mountain headed by Bilin Bilin "king" of the Logan and Pimpama. The sounds of ceremony from this bora ring carried for miles.
Today the bora ring is overgrown. Wongawallen now the name of a road that leads east down the mountain at its crest a red cedar bare branched in winter holds a lone nest. The name and the tree survivors.
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo,
2022 mixed media on board
Framed: 8 x 8 x 1.5 ′′
AUD $450. SOLD
One of the many spectacular birds to fly across the Tamborine Mountain skies is the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo. It has black plumage with many body feathers edged in yellow, yellow tail panels, a low yellow crest on its forehead and yellow cheek patches. Males have dark grey/black beak and small cheek patch while females have a paler brown beak and larger cheek patches.
The Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo is under threat in some areas due mainly to habitat loss through clearing, fires and fragmentation. They depend on tree hollows for breeding, for the right hollow a tree usually must be over 200 years old. When old trees are removed the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo has nowhere to nest and like all other hollow dependant species, its numbers decline.
SCATTERED #1., 2021
Mixed media painting on hand made Nepalese paper
712 x 450mm, Framed: 900 x 638 x 40 mm
AUD $ 1,950 SOLD
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.
THE FLAME TREE, 2010
pastel, acrylic and graphite on canvas
120 x 300cm, Framed: 150 x 330 x 40 cm
AUD $5000 SOLD
This drawing was entered in the Dobell Drawing Prize. Judith Wright's Flame Tree poem is its inspiration. We are fortunate that this gentle blossomer is native to this region. It blooms on bare branches. It is decadent and contrary.
SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES, 2018
mixed media on canvas with maps
1200 x 1800 mm
Framed: 1230 x 1830 x 40 mm
AUD $3,800. SOLD
Seeing the Forest for the Trees. There are times when we cannot see the forest for the trees. An expression used of someone who is too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole. The forest makes me take stock, shift perspective. It is not just one thing it is a universe, a history, an ecology and I am but a mere traveller passing through unknown worlds.
I live amidst subtropical rainforests, giant stands of ancient gums and cedars.
I have great respect for these sentinels. The lives lived in and around them.
Lately I have seen the forests burn.
We don’t know what we have got till it’s gone.
Watercolour on cotton rag p..., 760 x 580mm, Framed: 930 x 740 x 40 mm
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.
$ 1,950 SOLD
BEAUDESERT SIGNPOST, 2021
pen and ink on topographic map, 860 x 730mm, Framed: 970 x 843 x 40 mm
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.
$ 1,950 SOLD
KNOLL SIGNPOSTS, 2021
mixed media drawing over to..., 860 x 730mm, Framed: 970 x 843 x 40 mm
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.
$ 1,950 SOLD
RAINFOREST WAY, BLACK SUMMER, 2020
water colour on cotton rag ..., 680 x 580mm, Framed: 960 x 770 x 10 mm
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.
$ 1,500 SOLD
DIAMOND HEAD SUMMER, 2020
watercolour, ink and graphi..., 575 x 760mm, Framed: 740 x 930 x 40 mm
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.
$ 1,800 SOLD
KNOLL TREES GLOWING IN SMOKE HAZE, 2019 Watercolour on cotton rag p..., 760 x 575mm, Framed: 930 x 740 x 40 mm
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.
$ 1,500 SOLD
DIAMOND HEAD ROAD, 2020
water colour and ink on cot..., 576 x 760mm, Framed: 740 x 930 x 40 mm
In 2019, 9000ha - 84 percent - of the Crowdy Bay National park was impacted by fire.
$ 1,800. SOLD
SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES, 2018
mixed media on canvas with ..., 1200 x 1800mm, Framed: 1230 x 1830 x 40 mm
There are times when we cannot see the forest for the trees. An expression used of someone who is too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole. The forest makes me take stock, shift perspective. It is not just one thing it is a universe, a history, an ecology and I am but a mere traveller passing through unknown worlds. SOLD
Oil on Canvas. Sold to private collection. Features illustration used in Green Island in the Sky.
WITNESSES ON THE PATH, 2015
oil on canvas, 100 x 120mm
On my walks on this mountain I would pass by this stand of Flooded Gums or Rose Gums sometimes known as widow makers. I would watch them as they changed their skin, from gleaming white, to mottled amber, clean skinned or bark splitting. One morning early I found them gleaming in the dawn light and fell in love. SOLD
Available as a print on paper or canvas on enquiry.
SENTINELS, 2015
acrylic on canvas, 90 x 120 x 10cm
Winding down the track into the Knoll National Park my head often full of chatter. Gradually I become present. I start to notice the moss, the bark on the trees, the leaves on the ground.
I pass through two trees. They become sentinels, guardians of my journey into the forest. Reaching towards the sky
SOLD
WALKING WITH JUDITH WRIGHT, 2010
mixed media on canvas with ..., 1200 x 2000 x 10cm, Framed: 1220 x 2020 x 12 cm
For some time when my children were small we lived on Knoll Road and I walked the tracks of the Knoll National Park on a daily basis. I have long been fascinated by the life of Australian poet Judith Wright who lived on Tamborine Mountain for 30 years as I have now done.
When I walk that track I think of her, vanguard and champion that she was.
$ 14,000
THE FLAME TREE, 2010
pastel, acrylic and graphi..., 120 x 300cm, Framed: 150 x 330 x 40 cm
This drawing was entered in the Dobell Drawing Prize. Judith Wright's Flame Tree poem is its inspiration. We are fortunate that this gentle blossomer is native to this region. It blooms on bare branches. It is decadent and contrary. SOLD
SCATTERED #1., 2021
Mixed media painting on ha..., 712 x 450mm, Framed: 900 x 638 x 40 mm
Everyday the rainforest is different. After rain, after a long dry, after wind, after seed or blossom fall. Whatever is happening in the world, in my life, in my mind, the forests offer a calming balm to my scattered thoughts and emotions.
The tracks are patterned according to natures seasons.
$ 1,950 SOLD
SCATTERED #2, 2021
Mixed media painting on ha..., 450 x 712mm, Framed: 638 x 900 x 40 mm
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.
$ 1,950 SOLD
BLACK BEAN, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Castanospermum australe Black Bean or Moreton Bay Chestnut. Between March and May, it produces large pods filled with toxic seed. Ingesting the seeds can cause vomiting and diarrhoea and can be serious if medical attention is not sought. The Australian aborigines finely sliced the seeds and soaked them in running water for 10 days before roasting them and grinding them into a powder.
$ 800 SOLD
BLUE QUANDONG, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Elaeocarpus angustifolius occurs from India to New Caledonia and northern Australia. The skin of Blue Quandong Fruit is a brilliant blue, inside, the flesh is thin and pale green, surrounding a hard seed with a bumpy texture. In India and Nepal they are used in prayer beads and jewellery. Blue Quandong tree may attract wompoo and topknot pigeons, spotted catbirds, tooth-billed bowerbirds and flying foxes.
$ 800 SOLD
BLUSH ALDER, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Sloanea australis, commonly known as the maiden's or blush blush alder. Cream flowers form from October to November, a woody capsule matures from February to June, inside is a fleshy orange aril, surrounding the three to five glossy the black
seeds. Fruit is eaten by a variety of rainforest birds including the Paradise Riflebird.
$ 800
CROWS ASH, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Flindersia australis - Crow's Ash or Australian teak, is a large hardwood species native to parts of northern New South Wales and Queensland. First formally described in 1814 by Robert Brown in Matthew Flinders' sea voyage journal A Voyage to Terra Australis. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is a woody capsule studded with short, rough points.
$ 800 SOLD
FLAME TREE, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 420 x 295mm, Framed: 570 x 450 x 40 mm
Brachychiton Acerifolius is famous for the bright red bell-shaped flowers that often cover the whole tree when it is leafless. It is commonly known as the flame tree, Illawarra flame tree, lacebark tree, or kurrajong. The seeds of Brachychiton species are edible and high in nutrition - Indigenous Australians ate them either raw or roasted, after removing the irritating hairs that surround them in the pod.
$ 600 SOLD
GIANT STINGING TREE, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Dendrocnide excelsa -Giant Stinging Tree, Fibre Wood
The trees, especially the young leaves, have stinging hairs. The sting can be intensely painful and the pain can recur, with reducing intensity,
over a period of several months - especially if the affected area gets wet.
The tree was traditionally used as a source of fibre and edible fruits.
$ 800 SOLD
MARARIE, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Pseudoweinmannia lachnocarpa - Rose marara, mararie, scrub/brush rosewood/redwood, red carabeen/carrobean, merrany. White flowers form in August. Fruit matures from February to April. After ripening the fruit capsule opens in two halves containing numerous seeds which attract wildlife.
$ 800 SOLD
MIVA MAHOGANY, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Dysoxylum mollissimum subsp. molle, the red bean or Miva mahogany. White flowers form on panicles from January to July. The fruit is a brown capsule with one reddish brown seed in each of the one to five cells. The fruit ripens between November and March. The fruit is bird attracting. the large buttress tree has bark that when freshly cut has an onion scent.
$ 800 SOLD
NATIVE VIOLET, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Viola banksii (VIOLACEAE); Native violet, sweet violet, round-leaf violet. Small, perennial flowering plants. Bloom during summer and spring months, flowers are edible and can be used in salads. Widespread in sheltered, moist sites in forests and woodlands from southern NSW north to about the Daintree river. V.banksii was originally collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander at Botany Bay in 1770.
$ 800 SOLD
RED CEDAR IN WINTER, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 420 x 295mm, Framed: 570 x 450 x 40 mm
The fruit is a thin, dry, woody capsule, which splits into five valves.
Fruit will develop from late summer (February to March). The seeds inside have a papery, wing shape appendage which is used in wind dispersal.
Fruiting will commence from six to eight years of age.
$ 600 SOLD
RED CEDAR IN FLOWER, 2021
acrylic and graphite on canvas, 420 x 295mm, Framed: 570 x 450 x 40 mm
Rarely seen, the shy flowers herald great beginnings. The white or soft pink flowers bloom in late spring (November to January).The flowers are used to stimulate menstrual flow in women.
$ 600 SOLD
RED CEDAR IN FULL GLORY, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 420 x 295mm, Framed: 570 x 450 x 40 mm
One of Australia’s few native deciduous trees, the leaves will fall in late autumn, growing back early spring. In the intact rainforest, Red Cedar was able to disappear into the background, but come spring, having earlier shed its leaves to see out the dry winter, their flush of beautiful coppery-red leaves made them stand out like signposts to the cedar cutters.
$ 600 SOLD
RED CEDAR IN FRUIT, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 420 x 296mm, Framed: 570 x 450 x 40 mm
The fruit is a thin, dry, woody capsule, which splits into five valves. Fruit will develop from late summer (February to March). The seeds inside have a papery, wing shape appendage which is used in wind dispersal. Fruiting will commence from six to eight years of age.
$ 600 SOLD
SWEET PITTOSPORUM, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 420 x 295mm, Framed: 570 x 450 x 40 mm
Flowers appear in Spring, white to cream, fragrant, bell shaped.
$ 600 SOLD
YELLOW CARABEEN, 2021
acrylic on canvas, 505 x 395mm, Framed: 680 x 570 x 40 mm
Sloanea woollsii F. Muell.-Yellow carabeen occurs in the ranges around Killarney, Mistake Ranges, Mount Tamborine and as far north as Gympie. Showy creamy-white flowers, prickly capsules, brown seeds in bird attracting orange aril. I The wood is yellow and Carabeen being of Aboriginal origin.
$ 800 SOLD
STUDY #2 FOR SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES, 2020
charcoal and pastel collage..., 1100 x 630mm, Framed: 1210 x 710 mm
In this study I returned to my love of maps and the texture made by the words on the pages of books. In this case James Joyce Ullysses- a book most famous for its use of a variant of the interior monologue known as the stream-of-consciousness technique.
$ 1,500
ROSE GUMS, 2018
pastel on paper, 570 x 770mm, Framed: 720 x 940 x 40 mm
Rose Gum, Flooded Gum, Eucalyptus Grandis grows as a straight and tall and is one of the noblest of the large eucalypts. Known as Flooded Gum because the bark at its base is dark in contrast with the
white upper bark, resembling the debris line following a flood. It is also referred to as the “rose gum” because of the bright pink colour of its heartwood.
$ 1,200
STUDY #1 FOR SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES, 2020
charcoal and pastel on acid..., 1140 x 840mm, Framed: 1270 x 930 x 40 mm
In Palm Grove section of Tamborine Mountain National Park I have found some of my favourite trees. This tree leans toward the light, its buttress an anchor for its limbs reaching for the sky.
$ 1,350 SOLD
TWIST, 2021
charcoal on paper, 1140 x 775mm, Framed: 1180 x 810 x 10 mm
Twist, contort, bend, adapt, climb, wrap, entwine. The vines in our forests create something magical. They also remind me of how things in life are never straight lines and we are always adapting to our circumstances!
$ 1,500 SOLD
FALLEN, 2021
charcoal, pastel and waterc..., 1140 x 775mm, Framed: 1270 x 905 x 40 mm
In amongst the fallen leaves on rainforest paths are clues to what blooms above,
the fruit,
the leaves of fig,
of Quandong,
colourful one minute,
become rich humus for the forest the next.
$ 1,950 SOLD
SEED, 2010
Mixed media drawing on paper, 760 x 555mm, Framed: 930 x 740 x 40 mm
I habitually pick up feathers, rocks and seeds. Natures patterns and protective mechanisms are so fascinating.
This bifurcated seed is a Yellow Carabeen seed.
It is always amazing that from such a seed can grow such a mighty tree.
A reminder that ideas can fall on fertile ground and that from small beginnings can grow mighty movements. SOLD
SURVIVE, 2021
charcoal and pastel on acid..., Framed: 1270 x 875 x 40 mm
In Witches Falls National Park there is a stand of Zamia Trees or ferns.. scientifically known as Lepidozamia peroffskyana. It is a slow-growing, low maintenance, long-lived cycad. To me they are survivors. Slow growing, but proud and productive. $ 1,800 SOLD
it seems that life is a series of lessons to be learnt
these are some of them
simple things
complex things
fragile things
we are all woven into the ecology of nature
Triptych- mixed media on Canvas. Painted across 3 panels. Incorporates oils, drawing and stitching over canvas, paper and maps. 122 x 80 cm.
Original framed work $5,000
Mixed media painting on Canvas. Sold to Private collector. Available as a print on canvas or paper on enquiry.
Mixed media drawing on paper 100 x 80 cm. Unframed $800
cultures are often defined or can be described by their patterns and how these adorn all they do
Oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm $700
is there a universal symbol
could the body and the way we move, twist and express ourselves be this universal symbol of common understanding?
Mixed media drawing on paper
Original Sold in Private collection
Prints available on paper or canvas on enquiry.
Mixed media drawing on paper 70x 100 cm
Original sold to private collection. prints available on canvas/paper on enquiry.
Mixed media drawing on paper 100 x 70 cm
Original Sold to private collection.
Prints available on paper or canvas on enquiry.
Mixed media on canvas
Private collection.
Prints available on paper or canvas on enquiry
Mixed media drawing on paper. Unframed. 70 x 100 cm
Original $500. Prints available on Canvas or Paper on enquiry.
mixed media drawing on paper
100 x 70 cm
Unframed $500
Mixed media drawing on paper
27 x 35 cm Framed $250
Mixed media work on paper. Sold to private collection. Available as print on canvas or paper on enquiry.
Mixed media drawing on paper. 100cm x 70 cm $500
Drawing on canvas
Conte on paper 70 x 100 cm
Original Sold to private collection.
Prints on paper or canvas available on enquiry.
Mixed media drawing on card. 150 x 90cm. Original Unframed $800.
history is made every day
told through words, images and what can be found when we are gone
in 2011 I travelled to Dharamsala in Northern India and then on to Tibet to Lhasa.
These works are inspired by my experiences and concern for Tibet.
you can visit my blog http://tibetstateofmind.blogspot.com
sketches from daily life
