Fiona Strickland Wins The Hort's Best Inwards Demo Honor At 18Th Annual International
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Last night, at the Awards ceremony for the 18th Annual International Exhibition of the American Society of Botanical Artists in addition to The Horticultural Society of New York, Fiona Strickland was presented amongst the The Hort’s Best inwards Show Award.
The award was for her wonderful watercolour paradigm of Rhododendron 'Horizon Monarch'.
You tin read the story behind the painting on the ASBA website.
I practice really much appreciate the problem that both artists in addition to the ASBA become to, to supply both illustrations in addition to the 'backstory' explanations of the artwork inwards the demo - peculiarly for all those of us who volition non last able to reckon it inwards person.
Here's a brusk extract from what Fiona had to tell which explains why really many botanical artists volition last really keen to reckon this painting.
Below you lot tin read about:
The is the consummate listing of awards
The dorsum story reveals how Asuka was able to pigment from observation in addition to consummate her painting!
This exhibition is a highly prestigious showcase of contemporary botanical fine art past times leading artists from around the world.
This twelvemonth it is beingness held at the 1stdibs gallery on the tenth floor New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY.
The exhibition opened on November fourth in addition to continues until Dec 20th 2015.
The forty-four works are past times artists from the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, The Netherlands, Russia, in addition to the UK.
The artists whose operate was selected for exhibition are every bit follows. The link inwards their get upward is to their website where you lot tin reckon to a greater extent than of their work.
If you lot become to the selected artists page on the ASBA website you lot tin uncovering the link to their page on the ASBA website - in addition to reckon their operate inwards the demo in addition to the story behind their work.
The award was for her wonderful watercolour paradigm of Rhododendron 'Horizon Monarch'.
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Rhododendron 'Horizon Monarch' past times Fiona Strickland Watercolour 77 x 91 cm © Fiona Strickland |
I practice really much appreciate the problem that both artists in addition to the ASBA become to, to supply both illustrations in addition to the 'backstory' explanations of the artwork inwards the demo - peculiarly for all those of us who volition non last able to reckon it inwards person.
Here's a brusk extract from what Fiona had to tell which explains why really many botanical artists volition last really keen to reckon this painting.
I was fascinated past times the idea of using the technique of negative paradigm to pigment the ‘white’ hairs on the bud scales (painting the background betwixt the hairs leaving the white newspaper to depict the hairs). I had painted hairs on other paintings but had used trunk pigment for this in addition to wanted to amend my gain of application techniques in addition to experiment amongst a novel approach. The challenge inwards this instance was to communicate this surface to the viewer whilst conveying the shape convincingly, taking concern human relationship of the changing underlying color of the bud scales, in addition to the resultant of the calorie-free on them in addition to on the really fine hairs.The residual of this post includes brusk extracts from merely a few of the backstories to illustrate how much data is shared inwards price of techniques in addition to unlike approaches to creating botanical art
Below you lot tin read about:
- who won the awards
- the details of the exhibition
- the selected artists, the plants they portrayed in addition to follow links to their websites if so inclined.
Awards
The is the consummate listing of awards
- The Hort’s Best inwards Show Award: Rhododendron ‘Horizon Monarch’ past times Fiona Strickland
- ASBA Eleanor Wunderlich Award: Dragon Arum Dragon Arum Dracunculus vulgaris by Betsy Rogers-Knox
- Helen Gray Garber Award: Turnips. Brassica rapa by Asuka Hishiki
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| Turnips. Brassica rapa © Asuka Hishiki |
In the 3 turnip painting, I ended upward using 3 unlike turnips to consummate merely the 1 on the left, so it is a fusion or mash-up of 3 unlike turnips. I started to pigment the rainbow leaf, in addition to spell finishing it, the ease went bad. So I took a minute turnip to complete the turnip beginning in addition to base of operations stems coming out of it. H5N1 3rd turnip covered the rest. How practice I work? I select a variety of photoshop programme inwards my head. I cannot create a novel utilization of a turnip from scratch, but past times referring to existing subjects, it is slow for me to merge in addition to blend the parts inwards my head
- Cheap Joe’s Award: Pincushion Protea Leucospermum cordifolium by Estelle deRidder
- Susan Frei Nathan Fine Works on Paper, LLC Award: Collections: Abelmoschus, Platanus, Rhexia, Physalis, Hibiscus, Ipomoea, Clematis, Scabiosa, Vitis, Rosa, Hemerocallis, Mimosa, Iris, Smilax, Allium, Aquilegia by Lara Call Gastinger
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden Award for Print or Drawing: Iris germanica by Melissa Toberer
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| Iris germanica graphite © Melissa Toberer |
- Honorable Mentions:
- Ovuliferous Scale Bunya Pine Araucaria bidwillii by Mali Moir,
- Elecampane Inula helenium by Rosalind Allchin,
- Trillium inwards a Whirlwind Trillium sessile by Carol Woodin
Exhibition
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| Image: © 2005 Alexander Viazmensky | Cortinarius sp. (Mushrooms) |
This twelvemonth it is beingness held at the 1stdibs gallery on the tenth floor New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY.
The exhibition opened on November fourth in addition to continues until Dec 20th 2015.
The Selected Artists
Artworks were selected from 234 submissions past times jurors Susan Fraser, David Horak, in addition to Catherine Watters.The forty-four works are past times artists from the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, The Netherlands, Russia, in addition to the UK.
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| Some of the artwork inwards ASBA's 18th International exhibition |
The artists whose operate was selected for exhibition are every bit follows. The link inwards their get upward is to their website where you lot tin reckon to a greater extent than of their work.
If you lot become to the selected artists page on the ASBA website you lot tin uncovering the link to their page on the ASBA website - in addition to reckon their operate inwards the demo in addition to the story behind their work.
- Milly Acharya - Crocosmia 'Lucifer' in addition to Trillium cuneatum, T. erectum, T. grandiflorum, T. luteum, T. ovatum
- Rosalind Allchin (award winner) - Elecampane Inula helenium - a closed inspection of a flora which grows 10 feet high
- Margaret Best - Purple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
- Melanie Campbell-Carter - Shaving Brush Tree Pseudobombax ellipticum - You tin reckon a slap-up paradigm of this operate on the habitation page of her website - I recommend taking a look. This operate was done inwards watercolour amongst coloured pencil.
- Estelle DeRidder (awardwinner) - Pincushion Protea Leucospermum cordifolium - this 1 mixes the media in addition to includes Watercolor, Colored Pencil, Graphite on Paper.
- Monika deVries Gohlke - January’s Bouquet Asclepias tuberosa, Rosa cv. - It's e'er a pleasance to reckon a botanical creative somebody who is also a fine fine art printmaker! This has used the Etching, Aquatint in addition to Chine Collé processes
- Carrie Di Costanzo - Red Pine Pinus resinosa - this looks actually impressive online. Carrie works inwards gouache.
I mapped out the needles on tracing newspaper first, in addition to and then transferred entirely the department I was currently painting, every bit non to confuse myself amongst every bit good many lines on the watercolor paper.
- Jean Emmons - Mouse Plant Arisarum proboscideum - I've been a large lover of Jean Emmons's fine art operate ever since I met her at the RHS Botanical Art Show inwards 2011 when she won Best Botanical Painting every bit good every bit some other Gold Medal. She works amongst meticulous accuracy in addition to slap-up color amongst watercolour on calfskin vellum.
- Akiko Enokido - Goldfish Camellia Camellia japonica ‘Kingyo-tsubaki’ - Akiko paints inwards watercolour on calfskin vellum
- Margaret Farr - Baby Cyclamen Cyclamen hederifolium - Margaret is a fellow member of the Brooklyn Garden Florilegium in addition to exhibited at BISCOT 2015 this year (see a photograph of her amongst her operate inwards BISCOT continues at RGBE until 18th June)
- Beverly Fink - Purple Trumpet Flower Iochroma cyaneum - a really colourful flower!
- Ingrid Finnan - Panicled Hydrangea II Hydrangea paniculata - Ingrid is 1 of a few botanical artists who pigment inwards stone oil on paper.
- Kathleen Folino - Rose Library Page Rosa multiflora, Rosa ‘Crimson Shower, R. ‘Rainbow’, R. ‘White Max Graf’ - I practice similar it when an creative somebody paints roses similar this. I've seen a few examples inwards my fourth dimension in addition to they are e'er attractive.
- Lara Call Gastinger (awardwinner) - Collections Abelmoschus, Platanus, Rhexia, Physalis, Hibiscus, Ipomoea, Clematis, Scabiosa, Vitus, Rosa, Hemerocallis, Mimosa, Iris, Smilax, Allium, Aquilegia - Another American Artist who I've met at an RHS Botanical Art Show. I've been a huge fan of her operate ever since. It's refreshing to reckon somebody using watercolour every bit a monochrome medium in addition to paradigm inwards sepia. This paradigm focuses on the pattern in addition to 'architecture' of seeds in addition to seed pods. You tin reckon a larger version inwards her Autumn Newsletter
- Asuka Hishiki (awardwinner) Turnips (Ayame yuki) Brassica rapa and Watermelon Radish Raphanus sativus - Two really impressive watercolour paintings of beginning vegetables. I beloved the fight where the leafage is changing color on the turnips. You tin reckon to a greater extent than of her root vegetable paintings on her website.
- Leah Kaizer - Mathiasella II Mathiasella bupleuroides - this is 1 of 2 aompanion pieces painted on vellum
- Joan Keesey - Dutchman’s Pipe amongst Pipevine Swallowtails Aristolochia californica, Battus philenor hirsuta - I beloved the combination of plants in addition to butterflies in addition to the pattern of this painting!
- Ku-mie Kim - Southern Magnolia Magnolia grandiflora
- Karen Kluglein - Pink Hollyhock Alcea rosea- it's really pink! Plus it's 23" x 15" on vellum!
- Mindy Lighthipe - Biriba Fruit amongst Hairstreak Butterfly Annona mucosa, Atlides polybe - some other paradigm amongst a butterfly. I've never ever heard of the fruit earlier - it's a novel 1 on me!
- Katy Lyness - Brussels Sprouts Brassica oleracea - I beloved the languid brussel sprouts stem. Such an emphatic structure! This operate is inwards coloured pencils.
- Robert McNeill - The other one-half of 'the span from Scotland'. His botanical fine art is also really impressive
- Carrie Megan - Witch Alder in addition to Blue Wild Indigo Fothergilla gardenii, Baptisia australis - click the championship in addition to reckon the paradigm on her website
- Mali Moir - Ovuliferous Scale Bunya Pine Araucaria bidwillii - I was intrigued to reckon the operate which rated an Honourable Mention
The mantra to myself spell paradigm the cone scales was “more, to a greater extent than intense, more”. Each fourth dimension I idea I had made the darks black plenty in addition to rich colors rich enough, I would maintain going until they were ‘intense’. This was a tightrope of balance, every bit I desperately needed to retain the silken refractions of light, whispers of color which entirely operate if perfectly placed, no mess allowed! I used a 000 pure Kolinsky sable brush in addition to engaged a ‘dry brush’ technique. In monastic tell to maintain tiny areas of pure color in addition to calorie-free I refrained from applying whatever washes. My observations to pigment this were to purely follow the patterns of color, trying non to ‘understand’ but to utilization an ‘empirical’ approach to seeing.
- Tomoko Ogawa - Absalon Tulip Tulipa ‘Absalon’
- Sharron O'Neil - Sunflower Seedpod Helianthus annuus - one of the founding members of the Filoli Florilegium
- John Pastoriza-Pinol - Magnolia Magnolia ‘Vulcan’
- Kelly Radding - A Piece of the North Woods - Nodding Ladies Tresses Orchid, Schreber’s Big Red Stem Moss, Running Club Moss, Hair Moss Spiranthes cernua, Pleurozium schreberi, Lycopodium clavatum, Polytrichum commune - This is a lovely paradigm on vellum - click the link inwards the championship to reckon a large version on her website
- Lesley Randall - Olulu Brighamia insignis - I'd never heard of the flora in addition to and then read on in addition to realised it's a Hawaiian species. Executed inwards pen in addition to ink on paper.
- Betsy Rogers-Knox (awardwinner) - The Bog Sarracenia purpurea, Drosera rotundifolia, Iris prismatica in addition to Dragon Arum Dracunculus vulgaris. There's a slap-up dorsum story attached to the flora which won her the prize.
- Susan Sapanara - Gladiolus Gladiolus hortulanus
- Connie Scanlon - Raspberries Past Prime Rubus idaeus - I'm a fan of those who pigment plants in addition to flowers when they're non at their tiptop of perfection
- Liz Shippam - Opal Plums Prunus domestica ‘Opal’ - Liz lives is a U.K. Botanical creative somebody in addition to lives inwards West Sussex. I'm really attracted to the complete Liz has achieved on these plums
- Fiona Strickland - her dorsum story includes the story of how she in addition to Robert alive in addition to operate together every bit artists
- Keiko Nibu Tarver - Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum -
- Melissa Toberer (award winner) - Iris Iris germanica - I loved looking at the graphite drawings on Melissa's website
One of the most noticeable characteristics of irises is their bursts of brilliant color. Choosing to illustrate the bloom inwards graphite ignores that but instead focuses on the construction of the flower. Eliminating color allows the viewer to appreciate inwards particular the shape in addition to linear aspects of this botanical subject.
- Jeannetta van Raalte - Sunflower Arising Helianthus annuus
- Alexander Viazmensky Cortinarius Cortinarius sp. - you lot tin reckon this on the paradigm on the catalogue comprehend for the exhibition. Alexander paints lots of mushrooms in addition to you lot tin reckon them on his website.
- Denise Walser-Kolar - Bamberwood Apple Malus cv.
- Esmee Winkel - American Persimmon Diospyros virginiana - Esmee is a Dutch creative somebody who I was delighted to run into at RHS inwards 2013. She works as a working every bit a graduated scientific illustrator in addition to botanical creative somebody for the Herbarium at Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
- Carol Woodin (award winner) - Trillium inwards a Whirlwind Trillium sessile, Acer rubrum - Carol paints on vellum in addition to is the Exhibition Director
Previous weblog posts
- American Society of Botanical Artists - 15th Annual Exhibition
- 'Making H5N1 Mark' Profile of Fiona Strickland
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