Charcoal and pastel pencil on toned tan Strathmore sketch paper. Banksias are a native Australian plant. The hard and characterful seed pods were the basis of May Gibb’s villains, the ‘bad banksia men’ in her famous series of children’s books written in 1918 The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.

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