Brand New!! Ii Botanical Fine Art Exhibitions

I should endure posting almost ii botanical fine art exhibitions but it's a long story! They are:
  • Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society Exhibition - review of an exhibition
  • Florum - preview of their Annual Exhibition

Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society


Artwork by Nicki Tullett and Margaret King
I had a delightful see at the terminate of August to the exhibition that the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society held during the calendar month of August at the The Gallery at the Chelsea Physic Garden.

The Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society's aim is to exercise a collection of drawings in addition to paintings which tape the plants growing inward the garden.  It was formed inward 1995.  The collection at the Physic Garden at ane time comprises some 570 botanical paintings or drawings selected in addition to gifted past times members of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society to the Garden over the final xviii years.

Artwork by Julia Trickey and Judith Hillelson
Treasures from a Hidden Garden: Plant portraits past times the Florilegium Society included business office of this collection, most of which possess got never previously been seen.  It comprised a broad attain of botanical illustrations - amongst most painted inward watercolour.  There was notwithstanding an fantabulous department of locomote inward pen in addition to ink.  By the really nature of the society, the exhibition is emphatically leans to a greater extent than towards botanical illustration than floral - amongst some fantabulous examples of consummate botanical portrayals.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 alternative of the works on display volition also endure seen at the RHS Autumn Show at the Horticultural Halls inward Westminster on Oct 22nd-23rd.



Artwork which stood out for me included

  • a coloured pencil drawing of Salvia past times Jo Edwards.  It displayed a really frail behavior upon in addition to amazingly subtle rendering of the construction in addition to texture of the leaves in addition to really fine colouration of the different parts of the plant

    Salvia Officinalis past times Jo Edwards
    coloured pencil
  • Catharine Nicholson's pen in addition to ink drawings of Ferns.  These were only amazing.  Sadly Catharine died aged 52 of thorax cancer inward 2011. This was her obituary inward The Guardian.  I highly commend you lot accept a await at her website.  I've seen it earlier in addition to think how impressed I was amongst all her work.  She sets a really high criterion for those wanting to locomote inward pen in addition to ink.  Her reply to cancer is also reminiscent of Rory McEwen.
Ferns past times Catherine Nicholson
One matter I exercise experience that the Society needs to do. It needs a website - or at the really to the lowest degree a Facebook Page.  That agency they tin portion what they exercise amongst a wider audience in addition to all the other Florilegium Societies around the world.

Florum


©  Sandrine Maugy
The Florum Annual Exhibition opened to the populace today at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve.  It continues until 14th September in addition to is opened upwardly every twenty-four sixty minutes menstruation 10am to 5pm - entry is free.

The belatedly founder Elizabeth Smail’s ethos centred on the Florum exhibition existence “broader than botanical” in addition to 10 years later this philosophy is no different. There are sixty artists displaying botanical in addition to floral artwork - drawings, paintings in addition to fine fine art prints.  They ever exercise a roaring work concern (I came away amongst a lovely woodcut final year).

The exhibition is at the Kent Wildlife Trust's Sevenoaks Reserve, inward Bradbourne Road, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 3DH.  The nifty matter is that this is an exhibition which is accessible past times car - amongst gratis parking!

I was supposed to endure at that topographic point final nighttime - but after overheating inward the high temperatures experienced during our see to Hampton Court Palace, I had a bad night's sleep. I brand a betoken of never driving at nighttime when tired - in addition to thus I missed the PV.  This wasn't a work every bit I decided I could larn today - in addition to and then write the review.

So nosotros got inward the car early on afternoon in addition to headed off - entirely to notice that the whole of my neighbourhood was experiencing gridlock.  Knowing total good that this tin larn on for hours (as inward ii hours to larn less than a mile) when it's bad, nosotros turned circular in addition to went dorsum abode land nosotros soundless were able to retrace our journey.

So we're going to attempt ane time to a greater extent than tomorrow!

(I afterwards establish out that it was a demonstration past times the EDL in addition to that the Metropolitan Police inward their "wisdom" decided that diverting traffic inward a major agency in addition to creating massive gridlock problems for everybody else trying to come upwardly into or larn out Tower Hamlets was preferable to making the EDL demonstrate inward an expanse which is unlikely to crusade offence.  This is at ane time twice that this has happened in addition to caused a major work for the whole of the borough.  Time I intend for the Met Police to possess got a major rethink!  It's totally unsatisfactory for everybody else's comings in addition to goings to grind to a consummate halt.)

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