Deirdre is a recognized botanical artist who exhibits locally and internationally. She has paintings in public collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, the Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, USA, and in the Florilegium collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. She has won a gold medal at the Royal Horticultural Society in London for her series of eight Syzygium species. Her work has been selected as a finalist for the Waterhouse Prize for Natural History at the South Australian Museum, Adelaide.
Deirdre paints in watercolour on paper and vellum. The paintings take many hours and are always botanically correct.
Deirdre lives and works in Sydney and Port Douglas in Far North Queensland where she is painting the mangroves of Australia.