My most recently completed watercolor map, Headland, is my latest on the theme of urban-nature contrasts. This one is inspired by Lion’s Head, a dramatic granite outcrop and surrounding park in the middle of Cape Town, South Africa. It’s a small piece of Table Mountain National Park, disconnected from the rest. The National Park overall protects an island of fynbos, a shrubland/grassland ecosystem typical of South Africa’s zone of Mediterranean climate. It represents a Biodiversity Hotspot, globally rare and unique not only because little of its natural extents remain but also because those extents have always been limited: it makes up the Cape Floristic Province, by far the world’s smallest such region (there are only six in total).