Painting & Wandering: A Creative Guide to

Lutruwita

Explore through story. Paint through presence.

This pad takes you across lutruwita / Tasmania—through mountain ranges, coastlines, historic places, and powerful landmarks. These are sites of deep cultural memory, natural beauty, and human connection.

Use this guide to slow your steps, breathe with the landscape, and paint with awareness and story. Each location is a chance to honour place—not just through colour, but through time spent seeing and feeling.

Bring your Walkabout lutruwita painting pad, a travel brush, and a willingness to look deeply

🗺️ 1. The Places in Your Pad

Here’s where you can wander with your pad and meet the places behind each artwork:

• Cradle Mountain / Wulinantikala - Walk the Dove Lake Circuit, sit beneath the towering peaks, and listen to the alpine air. The land here is shaped by ice, story, and water. Let your painting feel crisp, spacious, and sacred. Where to paint: Glacier Rock, Dove Lake Boat Shed, Ronny Creek boardwalk. What to notice: Light on the peaks, shifting skies, the sound of still water

• Cascade Brewery - This iconic sandstone building sits at the foot of kunanyi, holding deep layers of both colonial and Aboriginal history. Let your brush reflect the structure and the mountain behind it. Where to paint: Cascade Gardens or across the road on a clear morning
  What to notice: Shadows on stone, the hum of water, contrasts between built and wild

• Mount Wellington / kunanyi - Look out from the summit, where mist wraps around boulders and wind speaks across the ridgeline. kunanyi watches over nipaluna/Hobart—it is a guardian of story. Where to paint: The summit boardwalk, Springs picnic area, Organ Pipes lookout
  What to notice: Rock textures, distant ocean, fast-changing weather

• The Bluff Lighthouse (Devonport) - A beautiful coastal lookout where sea meets light. This lighthouse has guided many home. Paint it from the rocks below or the grassy hill above. Where to paint: The viewing area near the path or sitting near the beach
  What to notice: Ocean blues, red lighthouse trim, gulls and shifting clouds

• Wineglass Bay Lookout - A perfect curve of white sand and turquoise water. Reaching the lookout is a reward in itself. Take time here to sit, sketch, and listen to the birds and breeze. Where to paint: Wineglass Bay Lookout or continue to the beach for new angles
  What to notice: Colour gradients in the sea, distant Hazards mountains, dune textures

• Tessellated Pavement (Eaglehawk Neck) - Walk across ancient patterned stone. These formations are shaped by millennia of tide and time. Paint here in the early morning or twilight for magic light. Where to paint: The lower ledge near the “loaf” section
  What to notice: Reflections in the rock pools, geometry in nature, gentle sea wash

• Bay of Fires / Larapuna - Red lichen on white rocks. Clear sea stretching to sky. This is a place of spiritual energy and cultural connection. Walk slowly, paint barefoot, sit with the land. Where to paint: Cosy Corner, The Gardens, or Binalong Bay headlands
  What to notice: Colour of the rock, shadows under driftwood, warmth in the light

• Richmond Bridge - The oldest stone bridge in Australia still used today. Built with convict labour, this bridge holds layers of Tasmanian history. Paint from the banks and listen to the ducks glide beneath arches. Where to paint: Either side of the river, or beneath the willow trees. What to notice: Reflections in the water, arches and shadow, story in the stone.

🎨 2. Painting Tips for Place & Story

• Use layered washes for landscapes with depth—sky, land, water

• Let architectural lines (Cascade Brewery, Richmond Bridge) meet soft natural tones

• Don't paint every detail—leave space for the unseen

• Take a few breaths before beginning. Let the place speak first, paint second

• If you're short on time—just sketch the feeling. The painting can finish later

🖤❤️💛 4. The Sacred Stop – tebrakuna / Hill of Mannalargenna

Pairrebeenne / Trawlwoolway Country

• Stand on the rise at tebrakuna, where the land meets the sea and the wind carries whispers of the old ones.
  This is the hill of Mannalargenna, revered leader and seer of the Pairrebeenne / Trawlwoolway clan.
  Here, the Forester kangaroos move gracefully through the lagoons they created along their songline.
  You can visit anytime, but it is best to come on Mannalargenna Day—the first Saturday of December—when community gathers to honour his legacy and celebrate the enduring spirit of the Palawa people.
  To stand here is to stand with ancestors, to feel the heartbeat of the land, and to acknowledge that this is, and always will be, Aboriginal land.