The Dutch-born textile artist Annemieke Mein, OAM, moved to Australia in 1951 when she was seven and developed a fascination for the native environment that she has nurtured all her life. Having excelled at art during her school days, the desire for creative fulfilment persisted, and Mein returned to the field in the 1960s. "I was just experimenting; I was trying every type of craft or art I could possibly find, to try and get the skills,” she recalls.
Mein began creating “textile pictures” in 1977, applying an almost forensic level of detail to
