The timed auction ends Thursday July 30th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Floriosa
Study for a Purple Interior, 2025
Acrylic and collage on board
Height 120 cm x Width 120 cm
Artwork is unframed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $2,200
This painting began with a collection of familiar motifs—a Chinese ginger jar, orchids and fragments of interior space. Painted canvas pieces were cut, moved and collaged into place, allowing the composition to develop through experimentation rather than careful planning.
I am interested in the moment when observation gives way to imagination. The result is an interior that feels both familiar and slightly strange, where colour, pattern and form combine to create a space that invites wandering and interpretation.
Artist Bio: Floriosa is a botanical painting practice based in Sydney, Australia. Drawing on Australian flora and landscape, the work uses plants and flowers as a starting point for expressive, painterly exploration rather than literal description.
The paintings are intuitive and responsive, shaped through colour, gesture and mark-making in the moment. Forms appear loosely and fluidly, evoking the rhythm and energy of plant life without resolving into fixed imagery. The work sits gently between observation and abstraction, leaving space for atmosphere, feeling and personal interpretation.
Sally Browne has been a practising artist since the early 1990s. After moving from the UK to Australia in 1994, what began as a gap year became a permanent home and a lasting connection to Australia’s plants, wildlife and landscapes. Spending quiet time in nature remains central to her process and wellbeing, and continues to inform the Floriosa works.
She returned to full-time studio practice in 2015. Since then she has been a finalist in national awards including the Calleen Art Award, Greenway Art Prize, Lethbridge Art Prize, Bluethumb Art Prize and the National Contemporary Watercolour Prize. Her work has been widely collected, licensed across Australian homewares and gift ranges, and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions.