This publication is a beautiful collection of the exceptional work created by participants of Tara Axford’s Inspired by nature, Exploring mixed media online course in 2021.

“Over the last few months, we have all become a lot more familiar with ‘this place’, our place.

We have had the opportunity to view our surroundings differently and embark on personal journeys of observation and delight, but also to share these creative explorations with each other.

While the distances we recently travelled were likely small, the knowledge, skills and enjoyment experienced were vast.

This is a collection of how we were ‘Inspired by nature’ and the discoveries we made and created along the way.

Enjoy the wander from place to place…”

- Tara Axford.

Cover Image credit, Catherine Stern

About Tara Axford:
Inspired by her hometown in Sydney, Australia, Tara Axford has been creating artwork her entire life. She is a mixed media artist and tutor, focusing on printmaking, collage, fibre arts and photography, currently exploring found objects, patterns and textures within her art practice.

Tara has an unquenched curiosity, not only for exploring nature but for learning and teaching and is a firm believer in living a creative life.

She loves the tactile textural pieces that distil the essence of the Australian landscape into something that reflects the colours, patterns and textures of our natural surroundings.

Tara's work seems to effortlessly create a connection to and reflect a sense of place and she loves sharing her process with other in her online course Inspired by nature - Exploring mixed media.