Banksias are a favourite native plant amongst many Australian artists. Their amazing shapes, colours and textures inspires a lot of obsessional art making!
As well as discovering Banksias in the bushlands where I walk and ride, I grow them in my garden. I love how their sculptural forms rise majestically above the other plants. They command the attention of the various honeyeaters as well as the human-sort of visitors to my garden.
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| Banksia flowering on one of my walks. |
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| The lines of yellow remind me of the segments of an orange. |
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| And when the colourful show is over, the pods remain. |
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| One of my interpretations. This is a snapshot from a concertina artist book on Parchment paper, the watercolours I used on the paper shine brightly like the banksias in flower. |
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| Another Banksia artist book, this time on Kraft paper using muted colours in my favourite combination of blue and brown. |
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| Another artist book, this time I played with more intense colours, and brought out some textures with waxy pencils. This one is also on kraft paper. |
