A quiet practice

Boronia & Brick is an Australian publisher of editorial colouring monographs. Each volume gathers a focused subject — a genus of native plants, a vernacular of heritage building — into a folio of plates intended for slow attention.

What Boronia & Brick publishes

The catalogue is built around three strands of Australian visual heritage.

Boronia

Studies of Australian native flora. Plants endemic to this continent, presented at scale so their structural particulars hold up to long evenings: the persistent cone of a banksia, the recurved bract of a hakea, the spike of a grevillea, the radiating spokes of a telopea.

Brick

Studies of Australian architectural heritage. The catalogue spans the late nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth — from the cast-iron filigree of a Victorian terrace to the asymmetric weight of a Federation Queen Anne, the leadlight transoms of an Edwardian bungalow, the verandahed Italianate, and on into the post-war modernism of Boyd, Seidler, and their contemporaries.

Specimens

Studies of Australian natural specimens. The cabinet tradition of the colonial naturalist updated for the contemporary plate — beetles, butterflies, cicadas, damselflies, and the arranged drawers in which they were once catalogued. Subjects drawn from the continent’s endemic invertebrate fauna.

All three lines share the same intention: monastic rather than busy. Generous margins. Plates that reward time.

Subjects covered to date

Native flora

Banksia menziesii, Banksia serrata, Banksia integrifolia, Hakea laurina, Hakea petiolaris, Grevillea robusta, Grevillea juniperina, Telopea speciosissima, Eucalyptus caesia, Corymbia ficifolia.

Heritage architecture

Federation Queen Anne terraces, Italianate terraces, Edwardian Filigree, Victorian Filigree, late-Edwardian bay-window terraces with chamfered corner entrances, decorative parapet pediments, cast-iron lacework verandahs. Federation leadlight panels — door transoms, sidelights, heraldic insets, late-period flame whiplash motifs. Mid-century houses by Robin Boyd, Harry Seidler, Roy Grounds, and Peter and Dione McIntyre — the bushland courtyard houses of the Melbourne school, the International Style of the Sydney generation, the Round House, the cantilevered river houses, butterfly roofs, A-frames, and the brutalism of the late period.

Natural specimens

Jewel beetles, stag beetles, longicorn beetles, christmas beetles, Ulysses butterflies, birdwing butterflies, swallowtails, damselflies, double drummer cicadas, and arranged specimen-drawer plates in the cabinet tradition. Australian rockpool life — the eleven-arm sea star, biscuit star, jewel and waratah anemones, soft corals, chitons, nudibranchs, hermit crabs, Neptune’s necklace, bull kelp, and full-pool community plates.

Each volume names the subject of every plate in its footer, by common and, where applicable, scientific name.

Format and specifications

• High-resolution PDF at 300dpi throughout.
• Plate dimensions sized for A4 folio printing or generous tablet work.
• Page count varies by volume (typically 30 to 40 plates per folio).
• Personal colouring use; not licensed for resale, reprint, or commercial distribution.
• Files do not expire — lifetime re-downloads from the personal library after purchase.

Volumes in print

• Banksia Folio Volume I — Studies of Australian native flora. 40 plates. $35 AUD.
• Federation Terraces Volume I — Studies of Australian Federation architecture. 30 plates. $35 AUD.
• Leadlight Folio Volume I — Studies of Australian Federation leadlight. 30 plates. $35 AUD.
• Specimens Folio Volume I — Studies of Australian insects. 30 plates. $35 AUD.
• Modernist Folio Volume I — Studies of Australian mid-century houses. 30 plates. $35 AUD.
• Rockpool Folio Volume I — Studies of the Australian rockpool. 30 plates. $35 AUD.
• Wildflowers Folio Volume I — Studies of the Western Australian wildflower season. 30 plates. $35 AUD.

Further volumes are in preparation.

Delivery and payment

Purchases are processed by Paddle.com Market Limited, acting as the merchant of record. All transactions are billed in Australian dollars, with applicable tax handled by Paddle on Boronia & Brick’s behalf. Receipts arrive by email; the PDF becomes available immediately in the customer’s library on the site.

Based in Australia

Boronia & Brick operates from Australia. Language and spelling follow Australian English conventions. Subject matter, where it draws on living or built environments, is Australian unless explicitly noted otherwise.

Contact

Press, partnerships, or a hello — hello@boroniaandbrick.com.au.