Dried Banksia

This painting was created as part of a challenge to create an artwork every day for the month of October. I painted this dried banksia stem from life by my studio window in the morning sun. Its serrated leaves contrast with the feathery flower.

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Jemma Cakebread is a Melbourne based artist currently working with oil painting and textiles. She drew on everything from books to walls as a kid and kept it up to adulthood, eventually completing further education in the arts against careers advice at highschool. She listens to true crime podcasts while she paints, dislikes going to her own exhibition openings and takes terrible care of her paintbrushes.