Brand New!! Florum Tenth Anniversary Exhibition - Review

Well - I hold upward made it to the Florum tenth anniversary Exhibition this afternoon - and, equally a result, this is going to live a chip of a film biased post.

This exhibition e'er celebrates plantlife inwards a multifariousness of media together with mixed botanical artwork, addition floral paintings together with paintings of gardens.

I was actually impressed alongside how a closely hung exhibition could expect together with thence good.  (I'm going to utilisation photos I took inwards my forthcoming posts virtually hanging exhibitions!)

I assemble compliments on the hang should live paid inwards the management of Susan Christopher-Coulson, Christina Hart-Davis and Rachel Munn.  The walls together with boards inwards the 'botanical' room looked fantabulous together with I intend the character of the run has increased this year.  It was for sure the best looking exhibition I've attended inwards price of the botanical artwork.

My other comment earlier nosotros start alongside my photos is that I'd never realised earlier quite how many visitors a Wildlife Reserve gets.  I've exclusively ever attended earlier on the Fri even out Private View.  This (Sunday) afternoon, nosotros were real nearly shunted into the overflow auto park!  The exhibition was also actually real busy alongside lots of visitors.

For those wanting to exhibit botanical or wild fauna art, I propose y'all instruct together with accept a real closed expect at the facilities offered yesteryear your local Wildlife Reserve!

lx artists were exhibiting 342 paintings together with prints - including a department for miniatures. Judging yesteryear the ruby point nautical chart on the wall, sales conduct maintain been brisk inwards price of originals, prints together with cards.

This exhibition is by invitation only. There is a regular turnover of artists each year.  The novel artists for 2013 are: David Bowyer, Margaret Eggleton, Sandra Fernandez, Janina French, Amber Halsall, Anna Mason, Sandrine Maugy and Maureen Russ.

First I'm going to demonstrate y'all the colouring sequences of run on display. The images are bigger than common - but you'll conduct maintain to click them to encounter them at the larger size.

The Orange Scarlet Board

The Violet Board

The Purple Board
(Top row) iii works yesteryear Susan Christopher Coulson VPSBA
(bottom centre) 2 works yesteryear Alister Mathews

The Pink Board

The Green Board
includes works yesteryear Christina Hart Davies, Helen Hanson, Sarah Ashwell

The Yellow Wall
(right) 2 works yesteryear Sandra Wall Armitage PSBA

a department of the Monochrome Wall
includes (top) 2 pen together with ink drawings yesteryear Rachel Munn
(Bottom right) 2 splendid pencil drawings of decaying oak leaves yesteryear Carolyn Worby

I should add together that at that spot is some other room which contains the to a greater extent than floral together with painterly works - but my starting fourth dimension beloved is the botanical fine art together with thence this is where I tend to focus!

H5N1 especial request Marianne Cox who won the Elizabeth Smail Memorial Award for Colour together with Composition - together with my apologies to Marianne, because having admired her icon I forgot to accept a photo!  It's a wonderfully brilliant together with painterly run inwards watercolour together with neo-colour.

Others who take away a call are

• Rachel Munn - whose run inwards pen together with ink together with coloured pencil had me drooling.  Excellent observation, draughtsmanship together with actually fine penmanship.  It's a technique I've used inwards the yesteryear and I'm much minded to pursue it over again - although I dubiousness if I'd ever gibe Rachel's skills inwards drawing!
• Susan Christopher Coulson - who has worked out nonetheless some other format for creating a dense designing of flowers - I beloved the novel foursquare formats.

Parrot Tulips together with Wallflowers yesteryear Susan Christopher Coulson

• Wendy Cranston - whose graphic run I seem to unmarried out every year.  However this twelvemonth I was much impressed alongside the controlled colouring palettes used
• Jackie Gethin's Hellebore Celebration - which I took a photograph of but unfortunately it has picked upward a reflection which ruins the effect
• Maureen Russ's icon of Hellebore together with Begonia which fairly bounced off the wall inwards my direction.  I assemble the intensity of colouring comes at to the lowest degree inwards purpose from the utilisation of acrylic inks.  I've non used acrylic inks earlier but her icon made me desire to endeavor them.

Hellebore together with Begonia yesteryear Maureen Russ

The exhibition continues at the Kent Wildlife Trust's Sevenoaks Reserve, inwards Bradbourne Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 3DH until Sat 14th September. It's opened upward 10am - 5pm everyday together with entrance is free.

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