We are so proud of artist Lori Pensini for being selected as a Finalist for the Portia Geach Memorial Award this year for her painting titled, My language of flowers. artist statement: I paint figurative floriography using Australian botanicals to create a unique language of flowers. The botanicals are spiritual emblems, giving voice to the personality traits of my figures by creating a metamorphosis of both flora and person. This piece uses floriography, a unique language of flowers that embodies the whole of me, my language, the heart and soul of my shaping. The botanics chosen are a complex bouquet of spiritual symbols defining the coloured flections of my being and aid in expressing myself and life story. They personify all of the hands past and present, that tended the soil and seeds of vitality, nurturing the unfurling of the woman I am. Botanicals - banksia - menziesii/robur/attenuata/grandis, dryandra, sheoak: kangaroo paw, wandoo, wattle, sturt desert pea, grevillea, pituri bush, honey myrtle, swamp paperbark, fairy apron.