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Vera Scarth-Johnson, Nelumbo Nucifera (Sacred Lotus Lily) c.1975, watercolour and gouache on paper, 57 x 75 cm. Vera Scarth-Johnson Collection, Nature’s Powerhouse, Cooktown.
Vera Scarth-Johnson, Bombax ceiba (Silk Cotton Tree) n.d., from the Endeavour River Series, watercolour on paper, 75 x 57 cm. Vera Scarth-Johnson Collection, Nature’s Powerhouse, Cooktown.
Vera Scarth-Johnson, Erythrina phlebocarpa c.1975, watercolour and gouache on paper. Vera Scarth-Johnson Collection, Nature’s Powerhouse, Cooktown.
Vera Scarth-Johnson, Kumbigi / Curcuma australasica (Native Turmeric) c.1975, watercolour and gouache on paper, 63 x 53 cm. Vera Scarth-Johnson Collection, Nature’s Powerhouse, Cooktown.
Vera Scarth-Johnson, Amomum dallachyi (Green Ginger) n.d., watercolour on paper, 63 x 53 cm. Vera Scarth-Johnson Collection, Nature’s Powerhouse, Cooktown.
This exhibition brings together fifty of Scarth-Johnson’s finest botanical paintings of flowering plants from the Endeavour River (Waalumbaal Birri) area alongside a number of her rarely seen floral arrangement paintings, private sketchbooks, early drawings, personal photographs and fascinating correspondence records with leading botanists and herbariums across the globe.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view original works by the artist as this is the first time the collection, on loan from the Vera Scarth- Johnson Gallery, Nature’s Powerhouse, has been displayed outside of Cooktown.
EXHIBITION OPENING EVENT
with Jean M Stephan, President, Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery Association Inc
Saturday 11 NOV 2PM
Followed by a guided exhibition tour with Sandra Lloyd, Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery Curator.
