Susan Morris 'Homegrown' - collected painting

Susan Morris 'Homegrown' - collected paintingBased in Melbourne, Susan Morris is a contemporary painter who is best known for her botanical still lifes. Often painting arrangements of native Australian plants and flowers, Morris compositions appear with dramatic flare, both belonging to the traditional genre of still life painting, and elevating it. In Homegrown, Morris creates a compelling composition, painting a bouquet of red geraniums emerging from a used can of tinned tomatoes. Rendered in

winning prizes for his scenes of the South Coast to being declared by the National Gallery of Victoria as the country's best painter of Chihuahuas

Image Size: 80 x 91 cm

as it is impenetrable

and his ongoing fascination with people who braved the long journey by ship to make a new life in Australia

are imbued with mystery

Signed: Signed and dated lower right: Joel Wolter 02

transforming satire into something closer to moral fable

Cuthbertson pairs his quintessential gestural brushwork with a warm colour palette of reds

Alice meets a hookah-smoking Caterpillar

a crowd gathers to celebrate a matrimony

in this whimsical Rorschach Test lies a teapot

two serene faces look towards an unseen future and past