Armed with a small box of water colours and a sketch book, Busselton artist Mandy Ferreira paints the landscape she passes by as her husband whisks them away on their latest road trip.
Ms Ferreira adores painting, and particularly loves to paint the underdog, succulents and plants in arid remote places or zones where there has been a fire.
She said a lot of her collection included macrocarpa and plants, often painting the first plants to rejuvenate after a fire.
"Everybody goes to Shark Bay and paints the ocean, I am plant based person, I paint the tiny little samphires holding the earth together," she said.
"This one I have from Dirk Hartog Island are these plants which grip the incredibly hot earth.
"If it was not for them the tiny little animals would not survive, and without them we would not survive, we wouldn't have a planet.
"I try to draw peoples attention to what they do not notice, that is my calling."
Ms Ferreira currently uses a lot of water colours in her work which she takes with her on road trips and walks through the forest.
She uses them for ease so she does not have to lug around acrylics and oil paints.
"I got really accustomed to water colours, when I travel I sit in the ute while my husband drives, I setup my water colours in the glove box and I paint in the car," she said.
"I paint the journey, I paint the whole trip as we go along. I do not know what it will look like and I do not care, but I got really comfortable with water colour because it was all I could manage in the car.
"I put on the page colours of what the area feels like, then I apply the image afterwards."
Ms Ferreira will feature her work at this year's Margaret River Region Open Studios when you can visit her studio in Broadwater,
This will be the fifth time Ms Ferreira has taken part in the two-week festival which allows the public to visit artists at their studios.
To find out more please visit mrropenstudios.com.au/.
