Scientific name: Nelumbo nucifera ‘Cochrane’s Green Magic’
Water colour on Lana 100% cotton paper
85 cm x 61 cm
129 cm x 99 cm unframed
$8,900
Note: This subject is painted life six from samples grown by Blue Lotus Nursery. This variety was bred by the owner from Chinese seed he himself collected and imported from China. The original painting includes an extra new leaf emerging on left side as seen in photo below.
This painting describes the search for bush tucker across the Central Desert landscape which is an important part of Aboriginal life.
Gracie (born 1956) specializes in painting the Bush Plum Dreaming, also known to the Alyawarre as Arnwekety. Her style of painting is distinctively minimalist and she uses a very delicate dotting technique and traditional colours, which derive from the colours of natural ochres.
Mixed media (oil on low saturation printed canvas, the print simply acts as a sketch). The original watercolour painting is a life size depiction of an endemic Australian lily named Doryanthes Palmeri.
This painting won the Focus on Nature Purchase Award in 2006, the first Australian artist to do so. It is now part of a permanent collection of the New York State Museum, USA
