Red Bottle Brush
$300.00
The bright red spikes of the Australian native Bottle Brush (Callistemon) appear mainly throughout spring and early summer and are a showpiece in many gardens. This water colour painting of one spike invites the viewer to focus on the details of red filaments with stigma at the top of each along with the petals and calyx at the base . The ‘flower’ is really formed by a cluster of small flowers arranged linearly along and around the branches. The callistemon is a genus of shrubs in the family of Myrtaceae.
Artwork Info
| Artist Name | |
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| Medium | Watercolor |
| Size | 50cm x 40cm |
| Artwork Date | 2022 |
Artist Bio
Over the past eight years Sue has participated in the Royal Melbourne Botanical Gardens Botanical Art Program, developing her profile as a Botanical Artist under the expert tutelage of highly respected Australian Botanical Artist, Dianne Emery. This ‘second career’ follows a fifty-five-year long career in a range of areas in education and organisational leadership. Sue believes she is now ready to present her work that has built on a love of drawing and painting sparked by her early high school art lessons at Dimboola Memorial High School in the 1950’s conducted by internationally renowned artist and sculptor, Ken Unsworth. Her love of all ‘things’ botanical was similarly nurtured by her early life in Dimboola through her membership of the Gould League of Bird Lovers and excursions with friends seeking out native orchids and other native flora.
Sue invites you to view examples of her artwork and hopes that her enjoyment in completing each of them is apparent.