Cobalt Blue and Gold Banksia Tree

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This artwork is part of the Native Flora and Flowers series, depicting the Banksia seed pods and trees in an abstract, monochrome palette. See the series for more - https://bluethumb.com.au/laurie-franklin/series/flowers-wild-native-lush-gardens
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This artwork is painted in a rich cobalt blue paint, white accents and small highlights of a pale blue pearlised paint to create the leaves. There is a soft shimmer in the pearlised paint with works beautifully with the gold leaf that embellishes the leaves as they catch the light. There are some small areas of raised texture.
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There are other similar artworks in the series - available stretched and ready to hang and shipping in a roll ( easy to to frame with Bluethumb's framing service)

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Australian artist Laurie Franklin (b. 1981) is an established, internationally collected painter known for her layering of paint and mixed media to create tactile works ranging from mountains, seascapes to florals and abstracted forms.

Laurie has sold 1000s of artworks since starting painting in 2002, artwork is displayed in hotels, restaurants and held collections in over 20 countries. Past hotel projects have included 200m of hand painted wallpaper and hundreds of original artworks for hotel suites.

Based in Melbourne, Australia she works from a large studio space allowing several artworks to be worked on simultaneously. She travels and undertakes Art residencies around the world, the changing scenery influences her unique approach to capturing the intrinsic character of the landscape . Her gestural style, tight color palette and use of metallic elements create tactile, intriguing artworks.