Julie Holcombe | Climbing Bootlace Orchid
Climbing Bootlace Orchid
(Erythrorchis cassythoides)
Watercolour on paper
48 x 32.5 cm
Erythrorchis cassythoides, commonly known as the Climbing Bootlace Orchid, is a leafless saprophytic orchid endemic to eastern Australia.
It can climb up to 6 metres via adventitious roots. From early spring and into summer
it has sweetly scented flowers growing in clusters, attracting native bees and other insects.
$3900
BIO
Julie Holcombe (formerly Nettleton)
Julie has been a botanical artist since 2002 and for most of that time her work has focused on Australian native plants endemic to the Sydney region. Before that she was an interior designer and had her own design business in Paddington, Sydney.
Her work is held in The Florilegium Society Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, The Shirley Sherwood Collection London, The State Botanical Collection at the National Herbarium of Victoria and The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documention, Carnegie-Melon University Pittsburgh USA.
In 2016 Julie was awarded a Gold Medal and Best Painting in Show at the London Royal Horticultural Society's international botanical art show.
She has exhibited every year since 2006 at Botanica, by Foundation and Friends of The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. In 2016 her work was exhibited with The Florilegium: Sydney’s Painted Garden at the Museum of Sydney, and in 2019 with Botanica at the Art Gallery of NSW. During 2019-2020 her work is being exhibited in The Shirley Sherwood Collection: Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art, at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London. Then in April 2020 her work will be exhibited again at The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, in an exhibition called Botanic Endeavours to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the work of the botanists Banks and Solander who accompanied Captain James Cook on his historic voyage on the Endeavour in 1770.
Exhibitions
Drawn From Nature July 2017
Media
Sydney Morning Herald July 2017
