Brand New!! A 24-Hour Interval Inward The Life Of Botanical Creative Mortal Rory Mcewen

Rory McEwan The Colours of Reality
comprehend of the exhibition catalogue

Today I constitute out why people rave near the botanical fine art of Rory McEwen.  I went to The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens to see 2 novel exhibitions:

• Rory McEwen The Colours Of Reality (11 May to 22 September 2013)
• Rory McEwen’s legacy - Artists influenced yesteryear him inwards the Shirley Sherwood Collection (13 Apr 2013 - Jan 2014)

together with besides to listen a beak yesteryear Dr Shirley Sherwood near the 2 exhibitions.

More of this tomorrow afterward I've sorted through my notes - including those of an interview alongside Dr Sherwood

Today I'm going to postal service the details of a tell inwards the prototype life of Rory McEwen.  After his give-up the ghost inwards 1982, his identify unit of measurement constitute a log of his the days spent prototype botanical art.  It's inwards the exhibition together with it's a existent teaching to review.

Here's his timeline for Fri sixth Feb 1981

• 9.45 - 12.30 Central Park Leaf
• 12.30 - 1.20 Started F Melagris 12" x 9.5" (this is a fritallary)
• 2 - iv Central Park Leaf
• 4 - 5.30 F. Meleagris
• 5.30 - 6.30 Started William Lobb Rose
• 6.30 - 8 Grayling Butterfly

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 piddling farther along inwards his periodical he records the total fourth dimension taken to consummate Central Park Leaf equally beingness 47 hours thirty minutes.

His operate is absolutely amazing.  He has besides been a rattling influential creative soul inwards price of his behaviour upon on contemporary botanical artists.

Here's a video near his work



I highly recommend this exhibition to all botanical fine art lovers together with all professional person botanical artists through to students of botanical art. This is a actually of import retrospective - of which to a greater extent than tomorrow

Note:  the prototype at the hold upward on is the comprehend of the exhibition catalogue - besides highly recommended.  the color reproduction is superb.  You tin sack purchase it via Amazon
USA - Rory McEwen Colour of Reality
Great Britain - Rory McEwen: Colours of Reality

My re-create is instantly signed yesteryear Shirley Sherwood!

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