O'Connor, Anne (1939 - )

Born in Sydney, Australia 17 November 1939.

Largely self-taught, Anne has painted all her life but joined the Botanical Art School of Melbourne in 1994 to specialise in botanical watercolours.

She has exhibited in various group exhibitions including at the RHS London Flower Show, Hunt Institute USA, National Gallery of Victoria, the National Herbarium, and Villa Mulberry, Eltham Wiregrass, Dickerson and Papillon Galleries in Melbourne.

Awards include the Jenny Phillips’ Botanical Art Award (2000), an RHS Gold Medal (2000), both for Vireya Rhododendrons, and the Noel’s Gallery Award (1995).

Anne’s work has been selected for inclusion in The Highgrove Florilegium which will record, for the Prince of Wales Trust, the Flora in the garden at Highgrove.

Her work is represented in the Shirley Sherwood collection, at the RHS Lindley Library in London and in private collections in Australia, England, Canada and the United States. She specialises in painting vireyas, the “tropical” rhododendron."

Example painting: Rhododendron viriosum

Source: pers com Anne O'Connor January 2007