Gold Ridge Banksia

Gold Ridge Banksia is a large abstract landscape depicting banksia trees against a mountain ridge.
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Metallic gold reflects the light through the trees, and the sky is soft textured shades of beige, warm grey and off white. The warm brown and light ochre of the landscape create a earthy palette that sets off the metallic gold beautifully.
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The gold leaf will change depending on the light source. At some angles and in different lighting it will look more burnished gold and in other lights it looks like a shiny bright light gold.

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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.