Eric Saunders

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
According to Marion Mahony Griffin, the botanical drawings of Eric Saunders demonstrate the "ever recurring voluptuous feminine forms explicit in nature".
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portrait painter and botanical artist. Marion Mahony Griffin wrote: “But the weird enchantment one feels [for the Australian flora] arises perhaps more from the shapes of the trunk and the branches and the connections with the ground. They flow and swell and contract, twist and turn in ways that are so well illustrated in the drawings of Mr Eric Saunders, which show the ever recurring voluptuous feminine forms”, (source unknown).

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1999
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2011

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