The timed auction ends Thursday August 27th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Floriosa
Unruly Posy, 2025
Oil on Canvas, Framed in a solid Raw Oak box
Height 100 cm x Width 120 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $2,400
Unruly Posy began as a simple bunch of flowers but quickly took on a life of its own. Rather than carefully describing each bloom, I followed the movement, colour and energy of the arrangement, allowing the painting to wander between observation and invention. Loose brushwork and unexpected colour relationships create a bouquet that feels slightly wild and untamed.
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.
Dimensions:
100 cm x 120 cm