‘[The] Australian wildflowers are quite on their own, they are the most lovely things that we have and their colour … is soft, brilliant colour like our atmosphere, which is very wonderful. I’m particularly fond of the Australian bush with its marvellous soft colour and the colour of the gum trunks themselves, the pinks and the whites, the reds and greys and blacks.’ (Grace Cossington Smith, interview with Hazel de Berg, 1965)