She enlightens us about the challenges Celia had in capturing the beauty of mosses and banksias while ensuring the illustration of these is scientifically accurate, the attention to detail applied by Celia in choosing her specimens and ensuring the accuracy of her representations, her use of field sketches, numerous tracings and colour roughs. She has deftly woven her into a broad tapestry of the discovery and history of Australia after British settlement, the history and development of botanical art, the major players in this area and the social changes in Australia. Those of us who know Celia see her in the pages of this biography and those who don’t, but love her work, will grow to know the person and to appreciate even more her genius as one of the great botanical artists and the only one to have painted a whole genus. CAROLYN Landon has captured Celia Rosser to a tee – her growth as a person, the ups and downs she has confronted, her development as a botanical artist, her love of storytelling and her sense of humour and infectious laugh.
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