The timed auction ends Thursday September 3rd at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Sally Browne
Lynton Guesthouse, 2025
acrylic, collage and charcoal on board
Height 83 cm x Width 58 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $2,000
This painting grew through a lot of trial and error. I painted over sections, moved things around and kept making small adjustments until it finally felt complete. I never begin with a fixed image in mind—I prefer to see what the painting reveals along the way.
The title came afterwards. As I was looking at the finished work, I realised the soft peachy pink had somehow become the colour of the bathrooms at Lynton Guesthouse, my late grandmother's business. I hadn't set out to paint a memory, but that familiar colour immediately took me back to my childhood. Moments like that are one of the reasons I paint this way—I often discover connections I couldn't have planned.
Professionally framed in a white timber float frame and ready to hang.
Artist Bio: Drawing on a background in textile design and typography, Sally Browne's paintings play with letterforms, shadows, and semi-recognisable figures that hover between meaning and mystery. Influenced by the legacy of abstract expressionism, she embraces chance, imperfection, and the tactile qualities of paint to create works that feel intuitive and handmade in a digital world.
Browne originally trained in textile design in the UK before relocating to Australia in 1994. For over 10 years she worked as an art director in branding, honing a design sensibility that continues to inform her awareness of form, rhythm, and composition. In 2015, Browne left the design industry to focus on her art practice full time, gaining commercial success as a watercolour artist with works licensed and collected internationally. After six years of building that career, she chose to step away from the commercial sphere to pursue painting as a deeper artistic enquiry. In 2021 she commenced a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School, Sydney, where she has focused exclusively on abstraction.
Her paintings emerge through improvisation; beginning in chaos, shaped by gesture, gravity, and chance. Fragments hover at the edge of recognition before dissolving again, reflecting her interest in psychological states and the shifting ground of human experience. Her current body of work marks a new trajectory that moves beyond illustration and design, embracing the instability and possibility of contemporary abstraction.
Dimensions:
83 cm x 58 cm