Nature Loves To Hide follows the artist John Wolseley, often in camouflage and crawling on his knees as he paints the habitat and architecture of desert mammals, birds, and reptiles. 

A film by Leonie Van Eyk documenting John Wolseley as he paints the habitat and architecture of desert mammals, birds and reptiles. Filmed in the Tanami, Great Sandy Desert and the Wimmera in Victoria, The film shows how the artist stealthily approaches and draws animals in their warrens, burrows, mounds, and nests — typically in camouflage. He climbs trees near his home in Victoria to document the nests of Treecreepers and Tawny Frogmouths. He draws Burrowing Bettongs and Greater Bilbies as they are returned to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s park at Newhaven, and spends hours waiting for a glimpse of Great Desert Skinks with their basking mounds, latrines and birthing pools. Desert footage courtesy of Iria Kuen.