Painting in Nature: A Slow Life of Creativity

This painting is in our book – and you can preorder it from your favourite bookseller here! http://geni.us/MothertheMountain ❤️

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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.

Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.

We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.

Music by Maple Glider thanks to Pieater and Partisan
@MapleGlider
“Performer”, “You’re Gonna Be A Daddy”, and “Good Thing”

Chapters:
0:00 Life in nature
49:09 Starting a big painting
1:45 Julia’s secrets to art and life
3:52 The circularity of nature
5:11 Gardening with baby chicks
7:35 Cooking jackfruit tacos on the fire
12:35 Sketching the magical background