AUSTRALIAN FLORA
MY INTERPRETATION OF A NATIONAL ICON
I too love a sunburnt country (with due acknowledgement to Dorothea MacKellar) and in this series I didn’t dream of replicating the beauty of our native flora. Instead, I have attempted to create my own symbolic representation of Australian Flora as an abstract artist. The shapes and colours evoke the amazing contradictions of seemingly delicate beauty that can be found in the dry, and sometimes hostile Australian environment, in which fire, death and regeneration are a recurring theme. When I think of Australian native flora I think of beauty on a small scale, the beauty born of endurance, perseverance and a cycle of life that appears to extinguish before miraculously bursting back to life.