The Tower Studio

An ideal setting for a botanical artist, the view from the studio in its hexagonal tower looks across the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania Australia to Bruny Island and to Adventure Bay where the type specimen of the genus Eucalyptus was collected in 1777 during James Cook's third expedition.

Anchorage sites of the ships of the French explorers D’Entrecasteaux and Baudin were in the Channel. Smaller boats from the these voyages explored the Channel extensively to collect the first specimens of flora and fauna to be recorded. Stands of Tasmania’s floral emblem E. globulus and the rare plant E. cordata, type specimens, collected by the French botanist Labillardière on D’Entrecasteaux voyages in 1792-3, still grow in the garden.

Extensive cider orchards, a small vineyard and a 1 hectare garden provide an ever-changing source for wonder and painting subjects.