This photo composite combines photography and painting created with gouache, the paint was made very wet to mimic the long tendril shapes of the Banksia leaves.

The elements have been digitally combined, blended and layered to portray an impressionistic, textured and painterly presence in the work.

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These Showy Banksias (Banksia Speciosa) are stunning plants, endemic only to the south coast of Western Australia from East Mnt Barren (Fitzgerald National Park) to Israelite Bay. The photograph was taken on location at Fitzgerald River National Park W.A.