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Brand New!! Interviews Amongst Half Dozen Rhs Botanical Fine Art Gilded Medal Winners (2014)

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This yr at that spot were six botanical artists who won RHS Gold Medals at the Royal Horticultural Society's Botanical Art Show final week. This postal service has interviews amongst all six.

This is a VERY LONG post and is for those interested inwards the technical aspects of producing a gilded medal winning display of botanical art.

So catch your favourite hot potable in addition to a comfy chair in addition to settle downward for a jolly expert read!

Additional interviews


This postal service follows on from my interviews inwards recent years amongst other RHS Gold medal winners.
Please also Federal Reserve notation that their TIPS for creating a Gold Medal display AND how best to acquaint it are listed at the halt of this post.

So - on to my interviews amongst the vi artists who won Gold Medals at this year's show.

The ladies amongst an RHS Gold Medal

This years RHS Gold Medal Winners were every bit follows - in addition to the interviews follow the monastic enjoin below
  • Hye Woo Shin (Korea) - Heterotrophic Plants inwards Korea - also WINNER of the Best Exhibit
  • Işık Güner (Turkey/Scotland) - Plants from the woods & forests of Republic of Chile - also WINNER of the Best Painting
  • Lynda de Wet (South Africa) - Parasitic Plants inwards Situ amongst the Host Plant - this is her blog
  • Louise Lane (UK) - Ophrys (Bee Orchids) of Menorca
  • Nikki Marks (UK) - The Genus Arisaema
  • Sharon Tingey (UK/Scotland) - Sunflowers (Helianthus)

Hye Woo Shin (Korea) - Heterotrophic Plants inwards Korea


Hye Woo Shin - amongst her Best Exhibit Award and RHS Gold Medal for Heterotrophic Plants of Korea (Parasitic Plants)

Hye Woo Shin 

Hye Woo Shin is a Botanical Artist and a PhD educatee at the Molecular Phylogenetics Laboratory at the Institute of Life Sciences in addition to Biotechnology at Korea University.

She won the Best Exhibit inwards Show inwards 2013 in addition to repeated this feat inwards 2014. Her go is genuinely stunning.

Approach


Hye Woo Shin starts yesteryear collecting all the relevant information nigh the plant. Then she makes studies earlier starting her paintings which she started final yr - but hadn't completed plenty inwards fourth dimension for final year's show.

Her paintings are hugely informative in addition to really complex in addition to I wondered how she works out how to organise all her material. She told me that she has the whole grouping inwards heed right from the really showtime inwards damage of how she is going to accommodate all the cloth on the newspaper - in addition to needs to do this because they all have got unlike flowering in addition to fruiting times in addition to hence she has to go on each epitome at the relevant fourth dimension of year.

Part of Hye Woo Shin's display of Heterotropic Plants inwards Korea

She starts yesteryear drawing every role of the epitome separately. She in addition to so transfers this to tracing newspaper which enables her to motility the sample bailiwick roughly the newspaper until she's found the exact right house for it

Hye Woo Shin was really nifty to highlight all the people who have got helped her amongst her serial of paintings of parasitic plants in addition to included a photograph of them on her stand upward (see below) which I idea was a really prissy deport on - in addition to also reinforced the calibre of those involved inwards in addition to supporting her project.

Team of highly qualified people supporting Hye Woo Shin re. collecting flora material, taking photos in addition to supervising flora moprphological identification

Materials


She doesn't work whatsoever pen or graphite for her drawings - everything inwards her display was done using watercolour - in addition to she's absolutely superb at managing her tints in addition to washes!

She uses Winsor & Newton Paints - but uses Schminke for the greens.

Part of Hye Woo Shin's display
Plant is painted inwards the centre. The life cycle of shoots, flowering in addition to fruiting occures roughly the edge
all dissections are sized such that each contibutes to the whole - all is planned from the beginning

Presentation


Everybody was absolutely fascinated final yr in addition to this nigh how Hye Woo Shin creates her really impressive display of artwork - so I asked! Here are the instructions for each private slice of art:
  • the backing, the newspaper in addition to the acetate used at the front end are all precisely the same size
  • the newspaper is sandwiched betwixt the 1cm (yes that's right 1cm) foamcore in addition to PET (which is the Korean acronym for the type of crystal acetate she uses)
  • a really broad clear mucilaginous tape is in addition to so used to seal the front end to the back, all the means round. the tape overlap at the front end is negligible. I mean value it's belike nigh 1/4cm on the border of the front end confront of the artwork.  (Somebody is really expert at doing corners!)
  • The artwork is in addition to so completely sealed within a protective casing which is in addition to so impervious to changes inwards temperature in addition to wet inwards the air - in addition to lilliputian insects!
  • The canvass is newspaper is completely untouched yesteryear tape
    • nothing attaches the newspaper to the foam core
    • nothing attaches the acetate to the paper
  • Basically it's 1 large sandwich!
So instantly y'all know!


Işık Güner (Turkey/Scotland) - Plants from the woods & forests of Chile


Işık Güner amongst Gold Medal Certificate
Işık Güner did a 1 calendar week intensive botanical fine art grade amongst Christobel King inwards 2002 - in addition to was hooked! She continued to have got classes amongst in addition to Paint amongst Christobel King through 2005 - piece she was doing her grade inwards environmental engineering. After graduation inwards 2006, she decided she's similar to pigment for a piece - in addition to her fine art has instantly go her career. She has been a visiting botanical creative individual amongst the Royal Botanical Gardens inwards Edinburgh since 2007 and now produces paintings for commissions, works on major projects in addition to teaches on:


Işık was awarded the Best Painting inwards the Show Award for her panting of Gunnera tinctoria.

Approach


Işık exclusively begins to pigment in 1 lawsuit she has collected all her botanical information. She hasn't studied phytology every bit a bailiwick but she does know a lot nigh the phytology of the plants she is painting.  Her aim is ever to hit a actually precise epitome in addition to ensures she ever know which parts she needs to present clearly.

The approach to her laid of paintings nigh Plants from the woods in addition to forests of Republic of Chile is unusual.

  • The actually difficult go was inwards the interrogation in addition to the training in addition to the design.  Her projection is linked to a major projection yesteryear the Royal Botanical Gardens inwards Edinburgh.  
  • It took her 3 years to ready all the sketches of all the unlike plants.  She did this yesteryear visiting places inwards Scotland where the flora grew for sure portions of the flora (e.g. leaf) in addition to also travelled to Republic of Chile to run into the flora inwards flower
  • When she came to pigment that took her 3 months in addition to indeed the Botanical Art Group on Facebook was enthralled every bit nosotros watched her pigment the really large fern on the left of the grouping below.

RHS Gold Medal display of paintings of Plants from the Woods in addition to Forests of Republic of Chile by Işık Güner GM

She sketches inwards graphite in addition to uses watercolour for samples of the colours - ever remembering she's non trying to do a painting!

When she comes to epitome she starts amongst wet in addition to washy layers of watercolour in addition to establishes calorie-free in addition to shade. On top of this she starts to layer the unlike pigments she wants to work inwards damage of edifice upward the painting.

In damage of blueprint in addition to constructing the composition of her epitome nosotros had a give-and-take nigh whether her applied scientific discipline background powerfulness aid her here.

You tin give the sack run into a gallery devoted to her Chilean Plant Series inwards her website. (Note All rights of these paintings are reserved yesteryear RBGE. ). Her go had already received a Gold Medal at the BISCOT (Botanical Images Scotia) and it was unsurprising that she topped this off amongst a Gold Medal from the RHS every bit well.

Materials


Işık uses Fabriano 5 - the really white white or Fabriano Artistico Extra White. Her paints are Winsor & Newton in addition to she uses the largest tubes. For some colours she goes to other brands in addition to likes Schminke's Brilliant Blue Violet in addition to the Sennelier Tyrian Rose. She doesn't ever desire to work transparent paints in addition to is happy sometimes using opaque paints - it depends on what's required.

Her brushes are W&N serial 7 miniatures - she uses #4 in addition to #6. (This is the Winsor & Newton Series 7 leaflet)

Presentation


Her works aere large - in addition to 1 was really large - even so they all fitted on to the panels. It was obvious to me that some really precise calculation in addition to criterion had been made of what would fit!  Işık was using velcro strips in addition to tape to aid stick the front end to the dorsum of her mounted artwork. She found that she needed to hold checking them due to the surroundings within the hall.

RHS Gold Medal display of paintings of Plants from the Woods in addition to Forests of Republic of Chile by Işık Güner GM

Lynda de Wet (South Africa) - Parasitic Plants inwards Situ amongst the Host Plant

Lynda de Wet amongst her Gold Medal in addition to the epitome purchased yesteryear the RHSyou tin give the sack clearly run into inwards this epitome the 3 elements to her artwork
coloured epitome of speciment, graphite background featuring the host
in addition to array of botanical dissections along the bottom

Lynda de Wet (blog) started botanical fine art inwards 1999 although she graduated amongst a grade inwards fine art from the Michaelis School of Art at University of Cape Town inwards 1972.

She instantly lives inwards the Western Cape of South Africa in addition to regards herself every bit a bloom painter.

Approach


She's produced a collection of 960 master watercolours simply for the purposes of identifying unlike plants in addition to flowers. They're all botanically right but really simple. They're all housed amongst a herbarium pressing in addition to the GPS of where they were seen in addition to collected inwards a conservation centre on a farm.

Her website is a mine of information nigh the parasitic plants she portrays.  This is a adult woman amongst a passion for her bailiwick matter!

Between 2004-2006 she began exhibiting at Kirstenbosch. She's won ii bronze medals in addition to ii golds including 1 final year.

Lynda did a lot of interrogation nigh what was required. The trend she uses is based on an approach which has been used before. Lynda started to comprise an environmental context for her plants inwards graphite inwards 2010 for the Kirstenbosch Biennale. In 2013, she started to add together inwards the strip of botanical dissection along the bottom of the painting.

Lynda's exercise is to go to a location, uncovering a specimen in addition to pick it. With parasitic plants she also needs to uncovering the host plant. She photographs the background in addition to uses the reference in addition to an chemical constituent of artistic licence to educate the background for the painting.

In damage of painting, she instantly starts amongst the botanical strip at the bottom on the footing if she doesn't larn this right in addition to can't explicate the flora in addition to so she can't progress. Next she paints the flora in addition to and so works on the environmental context inwards graphite in addition to completes this working from left to right.

One of her paintings, "Mystropetalon thomii", was highly rated yesteryear Dr Shirley Sherwood who bought it. It tin give the sack instantly go seen inwards the "Botanical Art inwards the 21st century"exhibition at Kew Gardens until tenth August 2014.

Materials


Lynda uses a express palette of Winsor & Newton watercolour paints on Arches Hot Press 300gsm.

Presentation


This is a persuasion of the presentation of vi paintings - which y'all tin give the sack also see on a dedicated page on her website.

Parasitic plants inwards situ amongst the Host PlantNote the size of the bill of fare for naming in addition to explanatory narrative
I liked her cards for the provision of information nigh the plant.

Louise Lane (UK) - Ophrys (Bee Orchids) of Menorca


Louise Lane in addition to her RHS Gold Medal Winning watercolour paintings in addition to sketches of Menorcan Orphrys

Approach


her final Gold Medal inwards 2012 when she was working inwards graphite. In especial she wanted to larn dorsum into painting.  But she also had the challenge of how to follow a Gold Medal. Her answer - amongst some other Gold Medal!  It also effectively buries forever Louise exclusively ever beingness identified every bit the adult woman who did the marvellous ferns inwards graphite.

Her hubby grew upward inwards Menorca in addition to the isle is a house they see on a regular basis. She knew 8 Orphrys grew inwards Menorca but didn't know where they all grew.  So Louise laid to in addition to did her research, read books, contacted people, found the best people to render advice in addition to relevant information in addition to by in addition to large did everything she could to uncovering out all she could nigh the really modest bee orchids of Menorca BEFORE her fieldwork. (see her tip 3 in More Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art)

Fieldwork was undertaken over ii weeks inwards Apr 2013.  The orchids are really subject on habitat in addition to are so non available from nurseries. (One does larn the impression that Judges similar people who have got taken the problem to go in addition to uncovering their plants!) 

She visited in addition to saw all the plants inwards situ in addition to recorded them inwards champaign sketches which each record measurements inwards the champaign in addition to scale drawings in addition to annotated studies of them inwards unlike profiles, color notes, in addition to the GPS location. The Judges provided feedback in addition to really much liked the champaign sketches in addition to color studies. I'm instantly expecting to run into to a greater extent than of these inwards future. It demonstrates commitment to your bailiwick thing in addition to the powerfulness to go inwards the classic manner.

After she got the identification of all her specimens confirmed yesteryear the Professor she was liasing amongst she was able to start painting!

Her paintings are in addition to so built upward yesteryear a procedure of layers in addition to glazes. It took her a calendar month to pigment each 1 in addition to displayed 8 paintings inwards full inwards the show.

six botanical artists who won RHS Gold Medals Brand New!! Interviews amongst vi RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners (2014)
Orphys Balearica yesteryear Louise Lane
This Field Sketch includes:
top left: name, house found in addition to date
top right: GPS information for location
left - measured drawing inwards the field
centre - annotated report of specific botanical aspects summation notes of variations betwixt plants at that site
right - color notes of the unlike parts of the orchid in addition to notes of how these vary summation specific paints used
bottom right: measurements of petals, sepals in addition to labellum
in addition to a Federal Reserve notation nigh the presence of an ants nest!

Materials


Louise paints on Fabriano Artistico 300lb - primarily because she knew she would go working on large areas of watercolour epitome at 1 time.  She also uses Winsor in addition to Newton Series 7, sizes 2 in addition to 3 in addition to exclusively keeps them every bit long every bit they create a point

Presentation


The bee orchids are painted inwards watercolour at x times their actual size. Louise also presented her champaign sketches beneath her watercolour paintings of each Orphys.  By doing so she created a potent presentation inwards damage of botanical information in addition to painted her bailiwick inwards the classic mode of focusing on the bloom in addition to its salient in addition to relevant botanical characteristics.

Louise also had a really handy perspex holder for the large printed postcards of the orchids which were selling fast!

Ophrys of Menorca yesteryear Louise Lane GM (2012 in addition to 2014)
The botanical information is really much evident inwards this display.
However it's contained inwards the sketchbook display from fieldwork displayed below the botanical art

Nikki Marks (UK) - The Genus Arisaema


Nikki Marks GM - amongst role of her display of The Genus Arisaema

Approach


Nikki Marks starts amongst the bloom in addition to builds from there. She uses upward to xv layers of pigment to build upward the flora or bloom really slowly.  Her command of the H2O inwards the pigment gives her the tinting strength she requires

Materials


Absolutely everything is done inwards paint. She uses M. Graham Watercolor Paints. She absolutely loves the silkiness of of pigment on newspaper due to the beloved inwards the pigment which actually makes it menses really easily. She also admires the lovely translucency she gets amongst her pigment instantly - in addition to this was sure really bear witness inwards her Gold Medal winning display of Arisaema.

The switch to M. Graham was prompted yesteryear having go rather disillusioned amongst the means Winsor & Newton Paints have got changed since the house of industry changed (from United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland to France). In especial she is really fed upward amongst their Olive Green!  She idea the former W&N was brilliant in addition to actually does non similar the new!

The pigment tin give the sack go obtained inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland from T. north Lawrence of Hove.

Nikki's newspaper of pick is Fabriano Artistico 300lb (640gsm) extra white. This is because she exclusively ever uses the newspaper itself for whatsoever whites inwards a painting. Also because amongst this newspaper it does non buckle in addition to at that spot is no demand to stretch.

Presentation


A actually fantabulous presentation
Same size of mat, double mount, bevel cutting lent weight in addition to character to the presentation
Underneath a elementary description bill of fare summation sample bill of fare - available for sale from Nikki.
Nikki had an extremely smart in addition to really professional person presentation in addition to display of her paintings. I was a large fan! The display was prepared yesteryear a framer who has unfortunately instantly retired. He used matboard front end in addition to dorsum amongst foamcore inbetween to give a fillet to the interior window. Both front end facing mat in addition to the foamcore were bevel cutting in addition to the foamcore had, I think, a fillet over the top.

All the matted pictures on display were roughly nigh 15" foursquare in addition to uniform - except for the inteior window so that whatsoever divergence inwards the actual size of the epitome did non create a divergence to the overall display

Display of Arisaema yesteryear Nikki Marks GM

Sharon Tingey - amongst her 
Gold Medal Certificate in addition to 1 of her Helianthus

Sharon Tingey (UK/Scotland) - Sunflowers (Helianthus)


Sharon Tingey has been epitome for a long fourth dimension in addition to is a self taught watercolourist.

She's a previous educatee of the Certificate in addition to Diploma courses at Edinburgh. These taught her what she needed to know to pursue botanical fine art every bit a career in addition to she was awarded her diploma inwards 2011.

Prior to winning her RHS Gold Medal, she had won a Gold Medal at BISCOT in addition to instantly teaches on the courses at RGBE.

Her teaching involves courses via Skype!

Approach


Sharon bought her flowers from Tesco. Which simply goes to present y'all don't absolutely have got to move to uncovering your bailiwick matter! You simply demand a fresh have got on the bailiwick in addition to an fantabulous laid of paintings.

Her seed caput came inwards the halt from an American Giant - a unlike type of sunflower which she obtained from the Botanical Garden. It's portrayed on a 1:1 scale

She started yesteryear doing some sketches in addition to making swatches in addition to studies for color matching. Plus detailed drawings of dissections in addition to photographs for reference purposes.  Each proper epitome in addition to so took nigh a calendar week - she completed v inwards Jan in addition to February.

As her epitome progressed she inevitably became to a greater extent than reliant on photographs every bit the master specimens had died. When using reference photographs, Sharon uses her Sansung Milky Way 2 for the epitome - it in addition to so becomes really piece of cake to magnify if the reference photograph is expert enough.

Four of Sharon Tingey's Sunflowers (Helianthus)

Materials 


Sharon uses Fabriano 5 in addition to Winsor in addition to Newton Paints. (She mentioned - every bit did a seat out of artists at the present - that she didn't similar the novel tubes every bit y'all can't read the details easily. I empathise W&N are instantly having a rethink!). Her brushes are W&N serial 7 and, like Işık,  she exclusively uses the Miniatures #4 in addition to #2. She strokes the pigment on in addition to and so uses H2O to blend

Her preference is to hold to a express palette. She used a really brilliant xanthous yesteryear Daniel Smith's for her primary yellow.  For those also wanting to tackle helianthus, hither is the consummate laid of paints that Sharon used - although she emphasises that she onlu used modest amounts of some.
Daniel Smith: Hansa Yellow Light
Winsor & Newton:
  • Green Gold
  • New Gamboge
  • Quin gilded (small amount)
  • Cad. Orange (small amount)
  • Perm. Rose (small amount)
  • Perm Magenta (small amount)
  • Perylene maroon
  • Indanthrene Blue
  • Payne's Grey
  • Burnt Sienna (decaying bits)
  • Raw Umber (decaying bits)
  • Burnt Umber (decaying bits)
  • Sepia
  • Permanent White Gouache (Hairs)
This is a 2011 interview amongst Sharon Tingey on the Botanical Artists blog.

More nigh Botanical Art


These are links to previous weblog posts in addition to my resources for botanical artists websites.
2014
2013
2012
2011
2007

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