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Tawny Trails: The Creative Living Experience
Highlights
- Explore the lush green mountains of Mount Mee, immersing yourself in nature's beauty while discovering local artistry.
- Meet award-winning artists in Woodford and Dayboro, gaining insight into their creative processes and inspirations.
- Savour unique experiences and great food along the trail, enhancing your journey through the vibrant Moreton Bay Hinterland.
- Wander through scenic vistas and forest walks, allowing the tranquil surroundings to inspire your own creative spirit.
Let Tawny Trails guide you through the creative Moreton Bay Hinterland. Travel from the character-filled towns of Woodford and Dayboro through the lush green mountains of Mount Mee and Ocean View to the creative delights of Samford and Clear Mountain.
Tawny Trails is The Creative Living Experience. Mixing the beauty of nature and the magic of creativity into an art and lifestyle trail that shares the culture of creative living. Tawny Trails will help you see why artists do what they do and what it means to live as a creative. And all while enjoying green rolling hills, scenic vistas, forest walks, unique experiences, great food, and even better wine.
Throughout Tawny Trails, you will meet award-winning artists that have had creativity running through their veins since birth, as well as those with academic, holistic, and opportunistic backgrounds. Each location has been hand-picked to express different elements for your creative journey with no place alike. Enjoy an extensive variety of artworks, from whimsical illustrations and vivid landscapes to huge glamorous abstracts entwined with gold and silver.
Time to be inspired, entertained, and wowed. Yes Please!
Itinerary highlights
Nigindi Gallery
An exciting example of where creativity and eco-consciousness meet, resulting in a glamorous and sometimes outrageous one-of-a-kind gallery experience.
Our upcycling queen Carol Robinson repurposes the discarded and the earthy into everything from Tabletops with 100-year-old glass to lifesize warrior women. A true crown jewel of the tours’ Woodford experience.
Ocean View Estates
This tour stop is where creative inspiration and motivation and appreciation meet. A glass of quality wine stimulates the thoughts or to relax and be ready for the next experience. Gorgeously delicious food is always a win in any adventure.
Running Duck Studio Gallery
A unique one-of-a-kind gallery space displaying illustrations with equal charm. Moving and emotional accounts of life and wildlife alike. All with a hint of cartoon from the artist’s years drawing for Walt Disney.
Dayboro Art Gallery
A collection of over 30 quality artists in a new state-of-the-art gallery. Showcasing the diversity and flexibility of the arts.
Yoga21
Chill, connect, and create. A warm space that incorporates mindful movement and relaxation into the creative process of Tie die. This location does require pre-booking and has very limited spaces for a truly immersive experience.
Christa's Art and Gilding
On a windy mountain road amongst the swaying Eucalyptus trees lives a lady, her thoughts and a brush. With few audible words, she speaks concepts of colour and lines to the ears of your eyes.
Christa’s work is deliberately bold with a gentle tone that reflects, drama, vibrancy, and contrast, with suggestions of bitter-sweet and colourful-quirky emotions.
The Good Egg Gallery
The Good Egg Gallery located in Samford Valley is a dynamic exhibition space available for artists, private functions and events.
A gallery that fosters the regions’ local creative community.
The gallery owner Deb Pettigrew is a passionate artist herself. Deb’s favourite materials are oil, acrylic, paper, graphite, worn paintbrushes, and inks. Her subject matter and style are just as diverse, from bold, loose scenes to fine portraiture.
Sandy Skinner Art Studio
Sandy shares a unique perspective on life and her place in it. She shares her journey with published books and artworks and would like to walk with you on your own journey to a beautiful life you wish for yourself. Offering Life Coaching: walking with others. It is about helping my clients dream the life they wish for, then creating ways forward so that those things wished for can become real in their lives.
Woodford Art Gallery
These talented artists from this gorgeous rural setting come together to showcase and sell their art. Workshops are held throughout the year for members by prominent teachers. They come together to paint, catch up, learn from each other, and enjoy what they love to do in an environment that is relaxed and user-friendly.
Slicker Horse Riding
With koala forest, grassy hills, rainforested creeks, dense bush, deep gullies, mountainous terrain, you are guaranteed to have an unforgettable experience each time.
They have over 180 horses that are suited to riders of all levels of experience. No matter whether you happen to be a seasoned rider looking for a weekend escape or possibly someone looking for an opportunity to have your first time sitting in the saddle. Rest assured, they have a horse, a trail, and an activity suited to you!
Booking and planning ahead a must for this location
Rendezvous
Rendezvous is a quirky book/café/gift shop whose shelves are stocked with a unique selection of contemporary authors as well as your old favourites.
At Rendezvous breakfast is served daily from 8am – 11am, homemade cakes and a variety of tasty light and gourmet meals are served from 11am – 2pm and coffee and cake until 4pm. We use a mild aromatic blend of coffee beans from Amanti and have a lovely selection of leaf teas. Milkshakes, iced drinks, organic juices and daily specials are also available. All in all you can satisfy all your senses with a trip to Rendezvous.
Woodside Ceramics
Husband and wife creative team focussed on bringing you Australian made and designed pieces that come from the earth, with raw stoneware clay juxtaposed against vibrant glazes. Our designs are timeless, elegant, and modern with a refined colour palette. We aim to capture the beauty of our natural surroundings with perfectly imperfect character from our home studio in Ocean View, Queensland.
Bohemian Décor
Housed in Dayboro’s historic butter factory building, you will find Bohemian De’cor’s curated collection of Norman Lindsay art and books. This collection extends from bookplates to novels to the magnificent original etching of ‘Pantera’.
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), was a hugely influential person on the development of Australian art culture, despite often being shunned in his lifetime for his outspoken ways and what was then considered lewd art. This was also contributed to by his strongly anti-religious attitude, which was often reflected in his works. Lindsay was well known for his dislike of wowsers, and detested being told what to create. In spite of this negativity, Lindsay was a prolific and wide-ranging artist, from cartoons to sculptures to writing, and a great supporter of fellow artists
Hay Cottage
For the historical enthusiasts on the Tawny Trail Hay Cottage represents the oldest surviving privately constructed residence in the Pine Rivers area, originally built in 1869.
This locations primary function today is as an outlet for members to show and sell their handmade items.
Dayboro Craft Princess
A gallery, working studio, and workshops are available. Lisa is a mixed media artist who primarily utilises recycled and discarded materials to make quirky and creative pieces. Her mindset is that art can also be sustainable.
Looking for a way to combine your craft addictions? Some of these projects use Powertex, stamping and papercraft to make a steampunk-inspired album featuring rusty powder. Want to make your own? Ask me how…..you can book in to do a class and take home your very own piece at the end of the class!
Art House on the Hill
We are two “retired” “young (tongue in cheek)” grey-haired friends who found creative solace in acrylic paint amidst the mayhem of a global pandemic. We create, teach, continue to learn as well as share knowledge, and hopefully sell our beautiful things so we have room to create more beautiful things.
Dinkidie
The delightful artistic duo of Diane and Gaetano.
Diane paints mainly in Genesis heatset oils. The rare oils add softness and an almost silky mood to her subjects, with hints of a unique vintage look. Still life, portrait, landscape, fantasy, old cars, and commission. Her other mediums are Watercolour, charcoal, pencils plus more.
Tour details
- On demand
Features
Service facilities
Service Tags
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
Operation information
Tawny Trails Tour
Tawny Trails is the Creative Living Experience. It is a self-guided, all-indulgent road trip, day out or weekend away that shares the culture of creative living through its website and trail experiences.
It’s not your average trail; this one is accessible year-round, so they are ready when you are. Escape from everyday life, relax and indulge in art, experiences, and the area’s scenic beauty. Mixing the beauty of nature and the magic of creativity. It’s the place to go for escape, inspiration, and motivation. Tawny Trails offers you the best kind of trail with options for entertainment, experiences, food, accommodation, and culture all in one.
Tawny Trails takes you through the creative Moreton Bay Hinterland, visiting the character-filled, creative, cultural, and historic town of Dayboro and the picturesque back roads of Mount Mee, Ocean View, Clear Mountain, Samford & Mount Glorious.
Enjoy beautiful art galleries and private studios, each offering a unique experience. Explore and discover hidden gems like boutique cafes, wineries, public sculptures, rainforest walks, and picnic spots. Meet the talented artists behind the works of art, take inspiration from their creativity and perhaps even purchase a piece to take home.
The Tawny Trails website has a detailed, interactive trail map.