Brand New!! 'Black Too White Inward Colour' At Kew Gardens - A Review

Black too White inwards Colour
Paintings yesteryear Sue Wickison

I tin highly recommend a catch to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew to see 'Black too White inwards Colour' - an exhibition of fine art for sale yesteryear 2 botanical artists Sue Wickison too Sue J Williams. These 2 artists are extremely good travelled too convey painted botanical flora all over the world.

The exhibition opened final calendar month too continues until Sunday five Jan 2014 - too then enough of fourth dimension to encounter it too perchance to purchase a gift for Christmas!

Below you lot tin encounter to a greater extent than images of the artists too their work.

Sue Wickison amongst about of her work

Sue Wickison has been interested inwards natural history all her liife. She has too travelled extensively collecting botanical specimens. Her botanical paradigm career started amongst an Honours grade inwards Scientific Illustration too she worked for a pose out of years equally an illustrator for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. In 2008 she won an RHS Gold Medal for her botanical art. She too regularly exhibits amongst too wins prizes from the Society of Botanical Artists. She forthwith lives amongst her identify unit of measurement inwards New Zealand.  This is a link to a gallery of her operate on her website

I honey the fact she's paradigm a lot of plants I don't encounter regularly - too they've ofttimes got a distinct sculptural experience to them. They're surely real striking - too I honey her large format paintings which are real impressive.

Sue J Williams amongst her operate "Black too White inwards Spring"

Sue J Williams is a fellow member of too regular exhibitor amongst the Society of Botanical Artists and Florum and is too a Fellow of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society.  Travelling too living inwards unlike countries because of her husband's operate has enabled her to brand commencement mitt studies of a pose out of native flora of unlike countries.

Sue Williams tends to focus to a greater extent than on plants too flowers which typically tend to live on somewhat smaller than those painted yesteryear the other Sue. Her smaller paintings are silent no less distinguished.

Part of the display of Sue J Williams' artwork

Black too white are 2 colours which ever perplex those of us who attempt to homecoming the colours accurately patch at the same fourth dimension avoiding the plants or flowers looking flat.  Looking for the color inwards dark too white is a challenge - non to the lowest degree when you're working on white newspaper equally well!

I honey the fact both artists convey laid a display instance amongst samples of how their operate commonly progresses from commencement sketch, through color mixing too towards a frame too an exhibition.

A display instance of sketches too try-outs too pigment mix samples yesteryear Sue J Williams
all the normal "working papers" of the botanical artist!
(Please banking enterprise complaint this was real hard to photograph because of the overhead lights shining on the glass
The existent thing is infinitely improve looking!)

Examples of studies too color mixing samples yesteryear Sue Wickison

One of the interesting aspects of the exhibition is they convey focused on aspects of institute life which are endangered species.  This is where other aspects of Kew's operate - inwards Kew’s Herbarium too the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place ("Kew inwards the country") come upward to the fore.

The subject is 1 of opposites too contrasts, the aim to exhibit the variations inwards color inside an evidently restricted palette. The contrasts include the scale of their paintings too the diversity of their dependent area thing – amongst plants from the northern too southern hemispheres, exotic too familiar, critically endangered to pop too wide-spread species. Many of the paintings on display are too for sale.

The Two Sues - Sue Wickison (left) too Sue J Williams (right)

Those thinking almost visiting volition live on able to encounter non 1 but iii exhibitions:

• this one Black too White, inwards Colour
• the exhibition inwards the master copy gallery Botanicals: Environmental Expressions inwards Art (of which to a greater extent than tomorrow)
• and Rory McEwen's Legacy - Artists influenced yesteryear him inwards the Shirley Sherwood Collection which I highlighted before inwards the year.

If you lot desire to maintain rails of exhibitions at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery I advise you lot bookmark this link http://www.kew.org/collections/art-images/shirley-sherwood-gallery/index.htm

The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art opened at Kew Gardens inwards Apr 2008 too is the merely continuously opened upward gallery inwards the earth dedicated exclusively to botanical art. It holds regular exhibitions throughout the twelvemonth featuring historical too contemporary botanical illustrations.

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