A day in the life of NATALIE RYAN
As a young girl, Natalie Ryan was always drawing or picking bush flowers. When she was five, her nan gave her a book of Australian wildflowers, a gift she treasures still. Then, in primary school, she saw an exhibition of Beatrix Potter’s early nature studies. “Her drawings of acorns and leaves were the most beautiful things I’d ever seen,” says Natalie. It was a fateful introduction to botanical drawing, the
