Sunlit Flora

Sunlit Flora - An immersive floral composition inspired by the warmth and quiet beauty of a sun-filled afternoon.

Drawing you into a garden-like world of layered flowers, organic forms and intricate pattern, Sunlit Flora where blooms and foliage flow across the canvas in Carley Bourne's signature nature-inspired style. From a distance, the composition has an almost abstract quality; up close, delicate hand-painted details and botanical forms reveal themselves throughout the work.

A softly considered palette of warm ochre, earthy brown and muted golden yellow is softened with creamy whites, dusty pinks and subtle touches of pale blue-green. Together, the colours evoke that beautiful moment when afternoon light becomes warmer and everything takes on a gentle golden glow.

Sunlit Flora brings the feeling of being immersed in nature into a contemporary interior — adding colour, texture and personality without overwhelming the space.
Signed on painting and includes signed certificate of Authenticity
Acrylic on Canvas (101x101cm - framed dimensions 104x104cm)

Includes a Custom made Oak Float Frame - Free shipping in Australia available

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Carley is a successful artist, one of the top 20 selling artists with Bluethumb that has also been featured recently on The Block 2025. Her style has a free fanciful and intuitive way of letting her artistic visions flow. Carley's love for the natural world, flora, botanicals and landscapes excites her artistic imagination . She particularly has a fondness for the Tropics and Australian Native Florals. Carley has attended various Artist short courses over a number of years, in Australia and England, and uses various techniques to create a different style to most. She produces unique, abstract, impressions full of colour, life, forms and marks with a floral and botanical theme. Mainly working with Acrylics, oil pastels, watercolours and charcoal, in her distinctive style, creating original art pieces.


Carley works from her home studio, Sunshine Coast, where she emigrated to over 17 years ago from England. She takes a lot of her inspiration from the natural beauty surrounding her, or the tropical coastal lifestyle.


This year 2025 Carley’s artwork was featured on The Block. She has also been included in 3 Group Exhibitions in Noosa alongside showing at the Brisbane Affordable Art Fair. Carley's artwork has been featured on two TV shows in 2024, Channel 7 'Dream Home' hosted by Chris Brown, and 'Selling Houses'.


Carley has most recently collaborated with Melbourne based Gift Card company to produce three money cards of Mastercard, Eftpos and cash gift cards. She has worked with Australian and international brands collaborating to produce creations from cosmetic season packaging (O Hui/LG) , Milpali Swimwear, Sol Seeker luxury eco picnic mats, fashion brands Xyza Savannah, gin packaging for Covent Garden Gin company, and more.


Carley has been featured in the Grand Designs Magazine July - September edition. Also featured on Channel 10 Roads Less Travelled tv show (October 2021 series 2, episode 8), Carley's local town of Noosa featured including Carley's works during her solo exhibition at the Butterfactory. During the last 12months Carley has grown further and July 2021 saw Carley open her first major Solo Exhibition 'Flora Collective' which featured a body of large Canvas and Paperworks. In September 2021 the huge online Interior Design and style website 'Style Curator' produced an artist feature with a question and answer article.
Carley's work has also been featured on Channel 7's TV hit show 'House Rules 2020'. Artwork included Morocco Dreaming Ltd Ed Fine Art Print.