My drawing ‘Crozier’ has been selected as a finalist in the Tatiara Art Prize, along with 40 other local and interstate artists. It will be on display at the Walkway Gallery in Bordertown, SA, from 26 September until 8 November 2025. The gallery is open 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 9.30-11.30am Sat. Stop in for a day trip from Adelaide, or while travelling between Adelaide and Melbourne!

This year for the annual South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA) I will be opening my studio to the public on the weekend of 16 & 17 August, from 12 noon to 5pm. See all the details in the SALA program. I will be demonstrating my recent techniques, inluding botanical drawings with black backgrounds. Some original drawings and reproduction prints will be available for sale. Inspect the whole SALA program to find all the art in your local area and beyond. Make SALA a success for South Australian artists of all media, locations and levels of experience!

Very pleased that one of my 2 entries in this prize exhibition held in conjunction with the Botanical Art Society of Australia, was awarded 2nd Prize! All 74 selected works are on display every Thursday to Sunday from 10am-4pm, 12 June to 6 July 2025 at the National Trust’s Retford Park Estate in Bowral, NSW. All work is for sale, and commissions on sales go to support the valuable work of CanAssist Southern Highlands cancer support network.

I am delighted to have 2 works selected for this prestigious biennial exhibition held by Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens Sydney.

I addressed the theme of the exhibition using examples of native terrestrial orchids that can be found growing close by other native species with similar floral colours and forms, to attract pollinators without expending the extra energy needed to produce nectar themselves! In my constructed compositions, on the left the wallflower donkey orchid, Diuris orientis, is nearby the twiggy bush pea, Pultenaea largiflorens, while on the right the blue spotted sun orchid, Thelymitra ixioides, is shown close … Click here for more...

Once again, botanical artists around the world have joined together to curate simultaneous exhibitions of botanical art to raise awareness of the rejuvenation of this artform and bring attention to plants and their importance to humanity. Special events will also be held to celebrate the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art on May 18, 2025.

The second Botanical Art Worldwide Project focuses on and celebrates biodiversity in the crops that have been closely associated with the human species over thousands of years. The theme is designed to draw attention to the vast variety of food and useful plants available, in contrast … Click here for more...

The Botanical Art Society of Australia will again have an exhibition of work by members at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. You can find all the artwork on the upper level of the Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, from 26 to 30 March. I’m pleased to contribute 2 of my smaller Flannel Flower drawings to the exhibition. All work is for sale! **Stop Press: I’m pleased to report that my Flannel Flowers 3 (on the right above) received a Highly Commended Award!

I join with other artists in Mitcham to show my work at the Library’s Open Community Exhibition. Nine of my drawings and one reproduction print are on the display in the entrance corridor of the Mitcham Memorial Library, Belair Road, Hawthorn, SA, from 12 February until 27 April, 2025 Have a look if you’re in the area! (All work for sale).

I’m humbled to be awarded an Honourable mention in the Celia Rosser Award for 2024 at The Art of Botanical Illustration by the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne from such a high quality field. Congratulations to the winner Ann Hayes and other Honourable Mention recipients, as well as every other artist selected for this exhibition!

I’m delighted to have 3 drawings selected for the prestigious TABI exhibition, hosted biennially by the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. The exhibition will open in person from 10am-4pm on 28 September 2024 at Domain House, adjacent to the Botanic Gardens in Dallas Brooks Drive. If you can’t make it to Melbourne you can see all the work online here while the exhibition is open.

I’m pleased to have my Waratah drawing selected for this prize exhibition in 2024. It is exhibited alongside a wonderful array of artworks from members of the Botanical Art Society of Australia, at Retford Park, Bowral, NSW, from Thursday to Sundays, 19 July to 25 August, 2024. View the work online if you can’t make it to Bowral! The commission on all sales goes to supporting cancer patients and families in the Southern Highlands.