These prints are also available at the Frances Keevil Gallery in Sydney, Emporium Botanica in Melbourne and Gallery 126 in Armidale NSW
The Braidwood Waratah has a more delicate beauty than the classic Sydney waratah. It grows as an understorey shrub to about 2.5 metres tall in forests on the southern tablelands of New South Wales, particularly near watercourses and swamps. Whilst collecting reference material for this painting, I saw native bees collecting pollen from the flowers of this waratah which I later found they were using to make ‘pollen cakes’ to feed their babies back in the nest. 