Artist:
Ray Besserdin
A stroll in the Australian Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, part 2/3. On entering the gardens, a left turn takes us northward past a magnificent Ironbark stand before Box, Peppermint and the distinctive Scribbly Gum with its bark decorated by abstract washes like paintings. Nothing, however, compares to the bizarre form of the grass trees. Curious little flowers like Grevillea, Acacia pom-poms and Correa bells festoon the many shrubs while male Fairy Wrens dart about accompanied by their twittering harems of inconspicuous females. An enticing “scribbly pathway” leads us into a wonderous landscape of cycads and ferns that once dominated Gondwana in the Palaeozoic Era, 180 million years ago.Sculptured from Hahnemuhle, (Germany) 300gsm cotton NOT, Arches (France) 310gsm cotton hot-pressed mould made papers and a varietyof handmade Hemp, Flax and Kozo (Mulberry) papers from Awagami, (Japan) and other Asian sources, some as light as 4gsm. Single colour ink tint and background wash.Winner: Gold Medal for Creativity, Mondial Art Academia, Professional Artists Concours, France, 2018First Prize, LightSpaceTime Gallery, Nature Exhibition, Florida, USA 2018 Finalist Stanthorpe Art Prize, Queensland, Australia, 2021
Other Works by Ray Besserdin
Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
We would like to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which our building stands, their leaders, past, present and emerging.