Mixed Media on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

This artwork comes with an external frame

This "Banksia Imaginata" is a mixed media artwork - acrylic painted background and collaged elements on top. I really enjoy the process of gel printing papers that I can then tear or cut to create collaged artworks. I print on vintage pages (encyclopaedias, text books, atlases etc) and also tissue and other hand made papers such as rice paper from China and Japan, and Lokta from Nepal. This artwork took many months before I was satisfied with the result and involved a lot of hand cutting of the papers, placement testing before finally fixing to the canvas with an archival collage medium.

You may have heard of Banksia Marginata which is an actual species of banksia. My banksia versions are very much imagined and abstracted in most cases. I love to use unusual colours, and in this case materials, to highlight the amazing and unique forms and structure of this Australian native plant. Sometimes reflecting the seed pods, sometimes the blooming flower spikes, my banksia artworks are a continuing exploration of their incredible patterning, geometry and symmetry.

This artwork has been created on professional quality cotton canvas and is already sitting in a raw Tasmanian oak float frame, strung with coated wire ready to hang on your wall.The painting has my small logotype painted on the front bottom right hand corner and is also signed and dated on the back.