TRUDY RICE
I love using color. At art school I was told to ‘tone my colors down,’ but now in my practice, the colors have come alive.
My final works on paper are made by printing layers of solar plate etchings. My initial drawings are placed in the sun with a photopolymer plate and etched into the plate, washed out in water, dried in the sun and then inked and printed onto paper. It is quite a time-consuming process, but the results produced capture my drawings perfectly from the natural environment.
Much of my inspiration is collected quite close to home, from my garden and around the coastal landscape of Lorne on Victoria’s picturesque Great Ocean Road in Southern Victoria, Australia.
Both my husband and mother-in-law are the most talented gardeners. One of my favorite specimens is the Banksia, a stunning Australian native flower with many different varieties, colors, and textures. I also have many insect specimens in my collection!
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Mother Wattlebird in a sweet garden
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Mother Wattlebird and Waratah Flower
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Little Blue Wren and Banksia Flower
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Koala in its natural habitat
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Dusk – Wattlebird in the Pink
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Cheeky Rabbit in my Spring Garden
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A Flying Wattlebird
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Wattlebird with eucalyptus and ferns
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Wattlebird poised with Waratah
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Wattlebird in a sweet garden
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Tawny Frogmouth and Banksia Flower
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Tawny Frogmouth amongst the ferns
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Robin
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Thoughtful Wattlebird
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Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
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Pin Cushion Protea in my Garden
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Orange Banksia
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Honeyeater on a Banksia flower
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Honeycomb Bumblebee
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Bees amongst the Liriope
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Beautiful Wattlebird
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Banksia Seed Pods III
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Banksia Seed Pods I
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Banksia Pod at Dusk
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Banksia Memories
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A Myriad and Celebration of Plants
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A Memory of the Banksia Pod
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A Beautiful Find – Pin Cushion Protea
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An Endangered Species
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Baby Wattlebird and Waratah
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Dragonfly, Seed Pod and Curry Leaves
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Fairy Wren and Liriope
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Habitat of the Waratah
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King Cockatoo and Banksia Pod
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Lemon Scented Gum+ Banksia
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My Garden – Waratah II
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Playtime on a Winter’s Morning
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The Bush II
$385.00