Cruickshank, Veda Muriel   (1915 - 2009)

Born on 17 December 1915 at Mt Lofty, SA; died at Strathalbyn, SA, on 26 March 2009, (aged 93).

Veda was engaged by The University of Adelaide as a full-time botanical artist attached to the Botany Dept. Marine Algal research group for five years in the late 1960s.

But in her own time she enjoyed painting wildflowers from the Mount Lofty Ranges, and it was these paintings that were used in the Jacaranda Press pocket-book 'Wildflowers of the Adelaide Hills' by university botanist Con Eardley first published in 1972.

Her original artworks were displayed in a botanical art exhibition at the then Canberra Botanic Gardens in 1974.

Source: Extracted from: C.M. Eardley, Wildflowers of the Adelaide Hills, illustrated by V.M. Cruickshank, Jacaranda Press, 1972
Portrait Photo: www.findagrave.com/memorial/169688046/veda-muriel-cruickshank.