maps & traces opens 8th Februray 2025 until 17th April 2025 at the Centre Beaudesert

maps & 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.

Bronwyn explores stories that have been unspoken or forgotten. In maps & traces, Davies uses  maps, objects, stitching and installation works to mark and trace the impact of these stories.

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.  Maps have been overlaid with images from nature telling 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.

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Banksia #1, 2022

Mixed media drawing on paper Framed: 89 x 73 x 4 cm

AUD $1,350

Banksia serrata, commonly known as the saw banksia, the old man banksia,the saw-tooth banksia. Banksia serrata is one of the four original Banksia species collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770.

The Cadigal people who lived in the Sydney region prior to the arrival of Europeans, called the plant wiriyagan

Banksia #2, 2022

Mixed media drawing on paper 89 x 73 x 4 cm

AUD $1,500. or $2800 for Banksia #1 & 2

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

AUD $1950

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.

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

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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

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

Oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm $700

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.