National Geographic photographer and biographer Paul Nicklen has been making bold expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic for many years, documenting the lives and habitats of leopard seals, whales, walruses, polar bears, bearded seals and narwhals and how they are threatened by climate change.

Here are some lovely nature inspired vector art designs which are free for personal use only.

Here is the March dose of aaaaaawh!

If you love animals, nature and art you will enjoy these quarterly eZines published by Oz Wildlife Art.  These gorgeous magazines are designed to be read using your computer which eliminates packaging, postage, paper and printing which is good news for trees and the planet.  Your purchase will also help …

Merlo, our chocolate point ragdoll kitten is coming up for his 1st Birthday on 20 March and he has been quite a handful!  As a younger kitten, he hated being shut up anywhere (and still does), never seemed to sleep and terrorised our older cat. My husband and I eventually …

I was kindly invited into a neighbour’s garden the other day who has a passion for orchids. One of the more unusual exotic plants I was lucky enough to see and photograph is a black bat plant (Tacca chantrieri) and I have never seen anything like it before.

I tried something a bit different in this artwork and I am enjoying working with silhouettes, patterns and layers at the moment. I like the simplicity of this new artwork and it has an oriental feel. I hope you like it.

A roundup of some fantastic nature wallpapers and all totally free

I got a lovely surprise to find out my blog has been included in “50 Amazing Nature Photography Bloggers” which is on a site that aims to find the top online photography schools and colleges.

This DVD Rom contains 460 high resolution, 300 dpi photographs of animals, insects, flowers, birds, feathers, reptiles and fish. These photographs have been taken by Lesley Smitheringale and are totally copyright free for both personal and commercial use so you can use them as reference for your artwork, in scrapbooks, projects, wallpapers etc.