A little sneak peek of new paintings by Stephanie for the Western Australian Museum gift shops 🐋
Lots happening behind the scenes lately and we’re excited to finally start sharing a few new projects … all will be revealed very soon to our newsletter subscribers first 🎨🍄🌈🦉
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Paintings: Blue Whale, Orca and Whale Shark
PSA: it’s fungi season… cancel your plans and call in sick 🍄
Autumn is such a magical time and we’re taking forever on our walks lately because of the fungi!!! Slower than birding (which is saying something).
It’s a full head workout… looking down, up, side to side 👀 scanning logs, leaf litter, tree trunks and everything in between. And just when you think you’ve seen it all, another tiny weird and wonderful form pops up.
If you can, take your time out there. Wander slowly, look closely and let yourself get a little lost in it.
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What’s the coolest fungi you’ve found this season?
Never forget how good the ocean is for you and how much life it holds 💛🏝️🦜🐠
Life began on earth in tidepools which still create life ✨ Being by the ocean is a wonderful feeling 💛
Pictured:
1. Tidepools shimmering with Neptune’s Pearls
2. Neptune’s Pearls up close
3. View of low tide
4. Knobbed Triton Snail (don’t worry, left on the beach of course)
5. Pacific Golden Plover summering in Australia from Siberia
6. Tidepools at low tide
7. Neptune’s Pearls
8. Osprey in the distance
9. Red-necked Stints summering here from Alaska/Siberia
10. Sooty Oystercatcher, a native endangered shorebird
We’re never far from nature, because we’re a part of it 💛 Take the time to look around you and you’ll see magic everywhere, even in the heart of the city 🌱
Here in the Inner West we wake up each morning to birdsong before the hum of insects kicks in 🦋 Our urban street is alive with butterflies, bees, lizards and something in bloom no matter what the season is 🥰 What nature is in your backyard?
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How incredible are Australian butterflies? 🦋 There seem to be so many around this summer and with Australia having over 400 species there’s always something unique and special flying by 💛These quiet beauties serve as crucial pollinators in a complex interdependence with their very presence indicating healthy ecosystems, so take joy in each beautiful, fragile and special butterfly you see here in Australia, they are enormously important 💛
Butterflies in the photos: Common Brown, Scarlet Jezebel, Australian Painted Lady, Common Crow, Blue Wanderer, Swordgrass Brown
🚨SOUND ON - Ever wondered what bird makes this iconic sound? I was beyond thrilled to capture video early one morning right outside our house of the Eastern Koel aka the Pacific Koel aka the Storm Bird ⛈️ These shy birds who you almost never see out in the open travel to the east coast of Australia each summer to breed by laying their eggs in the nests of Red Wattlebirds, Magpie-larks and Friarbirds, who then raise their giant chicks 🐣 This video is the male, look out for juvenile Koels calling out to be fed the next time your out on a walk 🦜
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Happy New Year friends near and far 💛 It hasn’t been an easy year, but we don’t know anyone who’s actually had an easy one, so as the clock strikes midnight we know we’re in good company when we take a sigh of relief that it’s over and a new chapter begins✨ It was our work that carried us this year and we’re so grateful to all of you for your support 💛 From our very first tradeshow to creating and launching an entire bird festival we have a lot to be thankful for 🦜 Wishing you all a happy, heathy and joyful 2026, see you on the other side x
