With a strong focus on colour and composition, I aim to capture the personality of the subject and its unique character in paint. The robust form and colour of Australian natural flora is a constant source of inspiration. Even discovering a new and unusual street or park tree is enlightening and, provides refuge from the chaos of living in a highly urbanized context. Botanical Art Society of Australia Inc (BASA) Florilegium Society Committee member, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens Sydney GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selected) 2012 Royal Horticultural Society, London Botanica: The Masters and Moore, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney 2009-present, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ‘Botanicals. Environmental Expressions in Art’ 2009 Botanica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Brush by Brush, Fernbrook Gallery, Kurrajong, NSW 2008-2009 Down Under: Botanical Artists from Australia and New Zealand in the Shirley Sherwood Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 2008 Botanica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney 2007 Botanica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Eryldene Trust Exhibition, Gordon, NSW Art of the Plant, Fernbrook Gallery, Kurrajong, NSW 2006 Botanica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Art of Nature, Fernbrook Gallery, Kurrajong, NSW 2005 Botanica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney Glebe Art Show 2004 Botanica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney 2003 Botanica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney 2002 Botanica, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney BASA, QVB Tearooms Exhibition PRIZES/AWARDS: 2012 Silver-Gilt medal (Grenfell range), Royal Horticultural Society, London COLLECTIONS: Shirley Sherwood Collection Isaac M Sutton collection, New York COMMISSIONS: 2010 Peter and Anne Kaleski 2007 Angela Webb PUBLICATIONS: Illustrated: ‘Encyclopaedia of Garden Design’ Weldon Owen 2004 ‘The Walkers Companion’ Weldon Owen 1995 ‘Natural Gardening’ Weldon Owen 1995.
Catalogue Number 82
Rhodosphaera rhodanthema 'Deep Yellow Wood'
watercolour
750mm by 600mm
$3,900
Catalogue Number 83
Stenocarpus sinuatus 'Firewheel tree'
watercolour
750mm by 600mm
$3,900
