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Early in her artistic career Celia Rosser began painting the uniquely Australian wildflowers with which she was intimately acquainted. In 1965 her first exhibition at Leveson Gallery in Melbourne included three watercolours of banksias. In 1967 she published her first book Wildflowers of Victoria. She is now among the world's finest botanical artists and is recognised internationally for her Banksia paintings.
In 1977 she was awarded the coveted Jill Smythies Award for Botanical Ilustration from the Linnean Society of London, and in 1966, the Medal of the Order of Australia (O.A.M.) for her contribution to botanical art. In 1981, Monash University honoured her artistic achievement by awarding her an honorary Master of Science degree and in 1999 an honorary PhD.
Celia illustrated Peter Bridgewater's The Saltmarsh Plants of Southern Australia and also George Scott's and Ilma Stone's The Mosses of Southern Australia. In 1974 she was appointed University Botanical Artist to paint every known species of Banksia. Her love for Banksia's has continued throughout her life, and with the publication of Volume III of The Banksia’s she has completed this gigantic twenty-five year task.
(text adapted after www.nokomis.com.au)
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