Another peninsula artist, Audrey Eagle, lives a deliber­ately reclusive life, the better to focus on the task she has in hand: illustrating native plants. “Would you like to see some of them?” she asked me, lifting a wad of papers from a briefcase. Before me appeared a succession of superb renderings, one species to a sheet, on which a spray of leaves, flowers, fruit, seeds—whatever may be significant—was depicted with astonishing detail.