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ISBN
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The Flower Seeker
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Painter’s Travels Judy Cuppaidge Over twenty years in the making, this is a highly personal, exquisitely rendered dedication to the wonders of nature. Judy Cuppaidge is an intrepid explorer, acclaimed painter, a noted gardener, and a marvellous and witty storyteller. Her search for the perfect flower—before it becomes forever lost to deforestation, encroaching roads, houses and people—has taken her across the Pacific to remote islands, The Americas, Fiji, New Zealand, through bustling cities as well as mainland rainforests, via abandoned airfields and back to her own backyard in Australia. The book lovingly depicts thirty-two of her most treasured blooms in ink and watercolours — each flower accompanied by a charming tale. Each painting is the product of intensive work and painstaking effort, sometimes uniquely layering fifteen applications of water colouring to obtain just the right nuance and shade. There are thirty-two full pages of beautifully rendered watercolour paintings, as well as thirty-five colour sketches from her travel sketchbooks and printed in a typewriter font to emulate the author’s travel sketchbooks |
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