Elizabeth Barnett

Floribunda and Pears

Name: Floribunda and Pears
Brand: Flinders Lane Gallery
Price: 5900.00 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock

$5,900.00

2025 – Original

oil on linen, framed.

107cm x 107cm

"When I think of Abundance I immediately think of the garden, especially at this time of year and through until Autumn. Roses fill our garden amid perennials, grasses and native Australian plants.

The word “Floribunda” comes to mind when I walk through the garden collecting these resplendent roses. The word’s origin in Latin meaning, as it sounds, an amalgam of the words “Flora” and “Abundance”. The word more commonly refers to a group of modern garden roses with many layers of petals that were created by crossing hybrid tea and polyantha roses, many of which I have planted here.

My paintings seek to portray the splendour of the season and the abundance that the garden offers in return for many hours tending the soil and cutting back weeds as thoughts drift from the studio, to family and beyond. In my studio I gather together these riches to paint. I take delight in nature’s gifts and hope to share that joy with the viewer through thickly layered paint, washes, oil stick scratched surfaces, cluttered compositions and an immersive palette."

About the Artist

Learn more about Elizabeth Barnett

Elizabeth Barnett’s vibrant still life paintings introduce exotic and visually compelling botanicals to domestic scenes of treasured objects, books and furniture. Her subjects do not sit flat upon the canvas, but instead reach up from it, enlivened by the wild and natural world. This liveliness belies the ‘stillness’ of still life painting and along with Barnett’s painterly gestures of shadow, line and colour creates a visual dynamism that reaches beyond tradition.

Sold Out

This artwork has been sold.