Category Archives: Nature Movement
Hidden Energy
Drawings of Wildflowers (Namaqualand)
I made a number of drawings of wildflowers at Papkuilsfontein using a dipping pen some years ago. This year I found the notebook and decided to colour them with watercolor. The paper wasn’t much good, but I had fun and I quite like some of the results. They’re all of small plants. If you click on the images, you’ll be able to see them bigger in a gallery.
An indicator species is an organism whose presence, absence or abundance reflects a specific environmental condition. Indicator species can signal a change in the biological condition of a particular ecosystem, and thus may be used as a proxy to diagnose the health of an ecosystem. Continue reading

