Dry Plants

Dry Plants

A fascination with dried plants and leaves

The native plants picked up during my walks, now adorning my home. These are eucalyptus varieties.
The collection on the left was once a bunch of flowers, gifted by a colleague before she left for the UK in 2020; The bunch on the right is a collection of fallen twigs picked by my eldest daughter Tash in 2018 when we visited Norman Lindsay art museum in the Blue Mountains.
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