Joel Tarling's Fieldnotes

This drawing is an illustration of something I mentioned in the blurb of Weekly drawing 53  "We lived 5km out of town along the co...

My big sister, Dan Scollay and I, inspired by a combination of  The Police  song ' Message in a bottle' and  Robert Louis Stev...

Bermagui tip collecting yellow bricks There were lots of good things to salvage at the local tip. Our best score was a pile of yellow b...

Amber and Danny looking for tiny abalone shells at their  favourite secret beach

Another fun day at the beach Some of the best beaches in the world look like this .

Realising the joy of underwater gardening. Before: I built the stone steps and oyster-free  swimming cove I was just out of Art ...

Wes Stacey's home camped by the sea Over the years growing up in Barragga Bay our family became close friends with Wes Stacey and his...

This drawing is my celebration of a magical place and the amazing times spent with Eileen Scollay, Dan Scollay (her grand daughter), Amber...

Anthony and I camping at St Ives, 1989 When I was 14, Anthony and I spent many weekends camping in the bushland at St Ives  . We would...

28th March 1881, William Barak , the Ngurungaeta leader  of the  Wurundjeri people, lead 22 Coranderrk men on the long walk to  Melbourn...