There HAS to be a post about wildflowers in my 100 Days of Art. People in my life know how much time I spend photographing, writing about, and creating based on wildflowers. My photographic archive has thousands of wildflower photographs. Some of them are shown on Fifteen Acres, my nature blog. I gain so much inspiration from wildflowers in my surface design and fabric designs. Without wildflowers, I would never have become a visual artist.

A cancer diagnosis in 2013 inspired me to pick up the camera and find out what grew in our bushland. Walking around in nature is extremely healing. I found that all other thoughts went out of my head as I looked for tiny flowers. Many Australian wildflowers are tiny – some less than 5cm tall for the entire plant. Finding these needs a lot of focus.

The look of our local wildflowers also differs from the traditional notion of what a flower looks like. When I saw my photographs, I was so captivated by them. The colours and forms are embedded in my artistic brain now.

A Gallery of Wildflower Photographs.

Pictures speak a thousand words, as the saying goes. Here is a gallery of some of my favourite wildflower photographs I’ve taken over the years. All of them were photographed on our property.

More Wildflowers on Fifteen Acres

If you are interested in wildflowers native to Central Victoria, check out my nature blog Fifteen Acres. You will also find wildflowers on my Spoonflower fabric designs, as well as on some of my Redbubble designs.

If you would like to look at more of my photography, I have created a Photography page. I’ll keep adding photos to it, including photos of wildflowers.