Cottesloe nature artist Kim Maple has landed her first art prize in 35 years with her painting Family at the Town of Claremont Art Awards and Exhibition.

An environment and nature artist, Maple said she was inspired to paint the grass trees, or xanthorrhoea, after seeing them growing along the rail line in Claremont and her visits to the Wheatbelt town of Dandaragan.

“I’ve been painting grass trees for quite a long time now, quite a few years,” she said.

“They just attract me because they’re quite little or big characters and they’ve got quite a nice sort of graphic quality with the dark trunks and all the ferns everywhere blowing in the breeze.”

Cottesloe artist Kim Maple. Credit: Supplied

The artist named the piece Family after it was completed as she noticed the grass trees appe

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