Loading…
Cooktown Skippycoin ICG

Cooktown

Queensland

COOKTOWN.QLD.GUIDE

Community, Business and Visitor Town Portal

Cooktown Who's Who

← Back to Portraits

Public Profile

Distinguished and Famous people from Cooktown

🎨 Vera Scarth-Johnson

Botanical artist Vera Scarth-Johnson moved to Cooktown in 1972, beginning an extraordinary later-life project: painting the plants of the Endeavour River district. She collected specimens for herbaria and worked with Guugu Yimithirr friends to record local knowledge of plants. Her paintings became a gift to the community. Detailed observation linked art with botany in her work, while the district’s flora supplied more subjects than one lifetime could comfortably accommodate. She received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1995.

Please like our Page

Is there someone we have missed? Would you like to honor a distinguished resident from Cooktown? We welcome the public to sponsor individuals by creating your own permanent article in the Cooktown Hall of Fame

Cooktown from the River thanks to John Benwell