Ross’ new body of work pursues the picturesque. She presents visions of rainforests, frangipani trees, tropical plants and berries, strange bushes and undergrowth, swarming leaves, fronds and blurs of foliage. The artist introduces luscious pops of colour—pinks and orange—amidst a lush and steady stream of greens and blues. The paintings move between imagined and real landscapes, continuing to gravitate away from compositions sourced from found images to now focus on the seen and the beauty and pleasing visions to be found in the real world.

Ross has exhibited internationally in Australia, France and the United States of America, Australia, Belgium, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico and Switzerland. A six-time Archibald Prize finalist, Ross’ works are held in France; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Artbank, Melbourne; Macquarie University Collection, Sydney, Fondation Maeght, St-Paul de Vence; along with private collections in Austria, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

**Sally Ross Said: **“I sense a buzz of recognition when I am in a place that I must paint, to share its beauty and strangeness. My paintings no longer bear witness to landscapes of fantasy and longing for distant place—they now inch towards an appreciation of the real, the experienced. _I want to paint these visions.” ___