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In This Place & Time - Year Two August 2022 - JUly 2023

A weekly sketch summarising the nature observations

A sketch journal of seasonal changes in nature and my vege garden. Observations and weekly summarising sketches for a full 12 months.

We live in a web of interrelationships, but do we even know them? I hope to inspire you to notice what’s happening around you, in your particular place, through your particular local seasons.

We can’t keep reading generic European-based seasonal guides and expect them to fit areas of Australia that would encompass multiple European countries. Those seasons never did fit here.

And now the climate of our world is changing. How well do you know how to read the weather and plants? Is it too late to forage for chickweed? Are the blackfish around at the moment? Is it too early to plant out tomatoes? Was there enough frost this season to sweeten up the citrus?

Year 2. Aug 2022 – Jul 2023
a sketch per week
approx 10 x 10cm / 4 x 4″ on A5
Indian ink, pigment ink pen & watercolour on 300gsm watercolour paper

Based in Bellingen NSW Australia.

I live and work on the beautiful lands of the Gumbaynggirr people. These lands were stolen. Sovereignty was never ceded.
I do my best to offer love and respect to all their Elders; past, present, and future.
I extend this respect and reverence to all Indigenous Elders across all nations throughout the world.
Let’s look after them and the old stories they hold from the land. We all need them more than ever.