The timed auction ends Thursday August 13th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Floriosa
Mrs Bouquet, 2025
acrylic on canvas
Height 50 cm x Width 40 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $750
Mrs Bouquet is a loose, contemporary floral painting filled with vibrant colour and expressive brushwork. Painted intuitively, it captures the feeling of flowers rather than a literal bouquet, bringing a fresh, joyful energy to modern interiors. This artwork suits living spaces, bedrooms or creative studios and works beautifully as a statement piece.
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.