Our web page continues to attract attention from time to time. Recently there was an email from a French veterinary student wanting some experience with our native animals.
And we have received drawings of our wildlife from a young artist from the USA who is a regular visitor. Her email and support is typical of our enquiries from the website. The artwork she has donated to FOGGs is featured on our “home page”:http://www.foggs-online.org/. We are very grateful Cynthia and look forward to more in the future.
bq.. Message: Dear Friends of Grampians Gariwend,
I’m a graduate student in the Science Illustration program at California State University and am writing to ask if I might be useful as an illustration volunteer/intern for any of your projects. Samples of my artwork are online here:
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I’ve been lucky enough to travel around a fair bit of Australia, and of all the many places there I’ve visited and loved, the Grampians were a real highlight. Some of the things I’ll always remember are the abundant kangaroos and birds, seeing wild (and astonishingly friendly) echidnas for the first time, the lovely geology, hearing from a Pomonal landowner about the orchid and grass tree blooms emerging from the ashes, and seeing some of the changes and regrowth for myself, 15 months on from the fire.
I’d be delighted if I could contribute in any way to promoting the conservation and appreciation of the Park, whether through nature trail guides, interpretive signs, field guides, instructions or diagrams, cover pages for publications or presentations, figures in articles or scientific papers, or other educational resources.
I can work in traditional 3-D and 2-D media, including ink, clay, graphite, colored pencil, small-scale cast and smithed metals, scratchboard, and watercolor, as well as digital media. I also have a bachelor’s degree in biology, and have several years’ experience doing a variety of lab, greenhouse, and field work (for soil microbiology and evolutionary botany).
I am available part-time or full-time from September 2010 anytime through the first half of 2011. I can work remotely, or would be more than happy to come to Australia for a few weeks or months. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like further information about anything.
Thank you for you consideration.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Clark