Firewheel in Bloom

This artwork is painted in a gorgeous cobalt blue with white and gold leaf accents.

. View my series for more - https://bluethumb.com.au/laurie-franklin/series/flowers-wild-native-lush-gardens
Fire Wheel in Blue is part of the Native Flora series and this artwork is study in a beautiful cobalt blue reminiscent of the famous Delft Blue pottery.
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The Firewheel flower is a stunning round, spoked wheel-like flower of the Stenocarpus Sinuatus tree.
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There is a pearlised tone to some of the blue and white and soft grey in the background. Black ink and gold leaf and small areas of raised texture add interest and depth.
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This artwork is unstretched and ships rolled in a tube.
It will wrap around the stretcher with a neat painted edge when stretched.
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Commissions welcome
There are other similar artworks in the series - available stretched and ready to hang and shipping in a roll ( easy to to frame with Bluethumb's framing service)

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Australian artist Laurie Franklin (b. 1981) is an established, internationally collected painter known for her layering of paint and mixed media to create tactile works ranging from mountains, seascapes to florals and abstracted forms.

Laurie has sold 1000s of artworks since starting painting in 2002, artwork is displayed in hotels, restaurants and held collections in over 20 countries. Past hotel projects have included 200m of hand painted wallpaper and hundreds of original artworks for hotel suites.

Based in Melbourne, Australia she works from a large studio space allowing several artworks to be worked on simultaneously. She travels and undertakes Art residencies around the world, the changing scenery influences her unique approach to capturing the intrinsic character of the landscape . Her gestural style, tight color palette and use of metallic elements create tactile, intriguing artworks.