These prints are also available at the Frances Keevil Gallery in Sydney, Emporium Botanica in Melbourne and Gallery 126 in Armidale NSW
The Wollemi Pine (family Araucariaceae) is one of the world’s oldest and rarest trees. There was much excitement surrounding the discovery of this species in a deep, isolated gorge north-west of Sydney in 1994, likened ".. to finding a small dinosaur on Earth.”
As soon as the significance of this new species was realised, fresh material was collected from the open door of a helicopter and rushed out to the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney where I prepared the first-ever illustrations of this species.
This print is of a painting I did in 2011 of a branch with a male cone, with a mature tree in its natural habitat in the background. 