I HAVE troubled with spoilt and spoiled. Either way, I was. I couldn’t find online the Margaret Preston print I was given by the two eldest – we’ll call them Golden Child I and Golden Child II, a family in joke regarding their competition for the No.1 title.

The print they gave me was Preston’s 1952 woodblock print Banksias in Jug. I have a thing for banksias and am lucky enough to live where they grow in all manner of shapes and sizes. They’ve been the subject of my own drawing and printmaking.

The print above is from the National Gallery of Australia’s Australasian art collection. It is the 1933 relief woodcut called Banksia Cobs. It was purchased by the gallery in 1980.