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Rosser, now in her eighties, lives in a house near Wilsons Promontory with a front door made of banksia wood. Her gallery, where many of her paintings can be seen, is next door. Visitors, if fortunate, can hear firsthand the artists tales of decades of travel search of every banksia in its place of first recording. Landons biography captures both the spirit of the woman and the momentousness of her artistic achievement. Fiona Gruber, Australian Review of Books October 2015

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Carolyn Landon has written several award winning memoir/biographies focusing on ordinary people whose lives define and are defined by the times in which they live, but this is the first time she has set her sights on a subject already known and admired for her extraordinary talents and artistic achievement. Landon is a newcomer to the world of botanical art, but has become a convert concerning all things botanical through her work with Ms Rosser. In order to fully understand who her subject is and what she has achieved, Landon has explored the history of art, history of Australia, history of botanical discovery, history of botany and the institutions that grew from discovery and science. Most importantly she has learned the place of artists in the midst of it all. Carolyn Landon is author of Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place (Penguin); Jackson's Track Revisited: History Remembrance and Reconciliation (Monash University Publishing); Cups with No Handles: Memoir of a Grassroots Activist (Hybrid Press); Black Swan: A Koorie Woman's Life (Allen & Unwin). She has a Masters Degree in Biography and Life Writing, and is an Adjunct Research Assistant at Monash University.

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