Turning of the Fagus — Crafted Pear

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A small grey Tasmanian scrubwren perches quietly among branches of turning fagus, the round leaves shifting from deep summer green to the gold and amber of autumn. The repeat has a mirrored, almost medallion-like quality — branches curving inward to

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Drawn entirely in pencil, this pattern captures the dense, layered canopy of Nothofagus gunnii — Tasmania's only native deciduous tree — in its quiet pre-turn stillness. The leaves tumble and overlap in every direction, scallop-edged and vein-detaile

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This is the moment southern Tasmania holds its breath — the fagus at peak turn, every leaf a wash of warm gold fading into olive green at the centre, each one traced with dark veining like a hand-drawn map of the season. The branches wind loosely acr

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