In my Mornington Peninsula garden — surrounded by the flora that feeds my work — I harvest the living materials that become the foundation of my eco-print painting practice. Using flora harvested from my Peninsula garden — dahlias, ivy, crepe myrtle, roses, berries — I press their living essence directly onto canvas before stretching, creating botanical imprints that can never be replicated. These ghosted forms become the foundation for paintings that speak to the ephemeral beauty of the natural world, the cycles of growth and letting go, and the profound intelligence of living things. Works such as Daisy Chain, Creator Star, and Life Giver are painted with earth pigments sourced locally — dyes extracted from avocado pits, pomegranate and onion skins — materials that speak to transformation, to finding beauty in what others discard. Soft pastels layer over these natural impressions, creating atmospheres that are at once tender and complex, as alive and layered as the garden itself. This collection represents my effort to elevate eco-printing from craft to fine art, positioning botanical printing within the contemporary art conversation. But more than technique, these works are modern vanitas paintings — meditations on the beauty found in life's fleeting moments, on wisdom discovered in contemplating cycles of creation, growth, and return. Some pieces carry the quiet inscription All is Well — a reminder that even in nature's constant cycle of bloom and decay, there is profound beauty to be found. These works belong in intimate spaces — away from the sterile formality of white gallery walls, where they can breathe in natural light, be encountered in quiet moments, and reveal how art transforms daily life. They are made to be lived with. Art — like nature itself — belongs in the spaces where we live, where we can encounter it daily and let it transform us slowly, gently, completely. Dharshi de Silva, 2025