The timed auction ends Thursday August 6th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Floriosa
A Meeting of Petals, 2026
acrylic on canvas in a hand painted frame
Height 50 cm x Width 40 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $800
A Meeting of Petals is a contemporary botanical painting inspired by the shapes and rhythms of magnolia blossoms and garden foliage. Working intuitively, Sally Browne allows natural forms to dissolve and reassemble into a dreamlike composition where colour and gesture take precedence over realism. The result is a peaceful, modern work that balances softness with bold graphic forms.
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.