Brand New!! Prizewinners At Guild Of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2013

I attended the Private View of the 28th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists on Th as well as since as well as then it's been dorsum to dorsum botanical fine art - because exactly downwards the route we've also had the RHS Botanical Art Exhibition - alongside 8 Gold Medal Winners!

I'm exactly close to start writing upwards the exhibitions visited as well as artists I've spoken to inwards the final iii days - but given the fact I'm notwithstanding suffering from the 3rd attack of the dreaded lurgy this mightiness live a fleck slow.

• I'm starting alongside this post service which volition focus on the prizewinners as well as those demonstrating over the adjacent week.
• There volition live a follow upwards post service close the exhibition by as well as large as well as highlighting those who got Certificates of Botanical Merit as well as were Highly Commended
• I'm also in all probability doing a brace of posts on the RHS Show merely because the fine art was fabulous as well as the tips close how to acquire a aureate medal were exactly every bit good!

Society of Botanical Art - 2013 Awards

Vickie Marsh led the Awards ceremony.  This is her last yr every bit President of the SBA.

The subject of this year's exhibition is "The Language of Flowers" is beingness held at its normal venue - Westminster Central Hall - opposite Westminster Abbey - until Sunday, 21 Apr 2013. It's complimentary to come inwards as well as is opened upwards every 24-hour interval betwixt 11am to 5pm including Sundays.

SBA President Vickie Marsh at the Awards Ceremony

Below are the people who won major awards inwards this year's exhibition.

The President’s Award for operate inwards other media Cash prize for operate inwards media other than watercolour

Winner:  Rachel Munn SBA for Acanthus spinosus

Winner of the President's Award
Acanthus spinosus yesteryear Rachel Munn SBA
pen as well as ink alongside coloured pencil

I'm real fond of pen as well as ink operate as well as was real pleased to run across all Rachel's operate inwards the exhibition.  She also had a delightful Fading Peony.

The Margaret Stevens Award For operate reflecting line of piece of job concern for the environment
Winner: Penny Stenning for Garden Visitors

St Cuthbert's Mill Award - Paper to the value of £100 for an outstanding watercolour painting.
Winner:  Julia Trickey SBA - Leaves from Bath Botanical Garden

Winner St Cuthbert's Mill Award 
 Julia Trickey as well as Leaves from Bath Botanical Garden (£1,800)
watercolour on total sheet

If yous click the championship of this icon yous tin run across a larger version of Julia's website.  Julia told me she was inspired to practice it by Rachel Pedder's painting.  She started bottom correct as well as worked across the sail - as well as it took all yr to practice because of the withdraw to correspond leaves inwards different seasons.  This icon is on a total sail of deckle edged Arches 300lb HP - painted on the opposite side - but I'm certain the adjacent i is going to live on newspaper from St Cuthbert's Mill!  I don't often run across float mounted deckled edged operate inwards the SBA exhibition but this i looked real good.

Watch out for Julia inwards my posts close the RHS Show - she won her 4th Gold Medal the adjacent 24-hour interval at the RHS Show!

You tin also run across her operate inwards the ‘What We Collect: Recent Art Acquisitions’, 2007- 2012 Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh. USA 22 March-30 June 2013  Her leafage is beingness used every bit the motif for the exhibition on their website.

The Joyce Cuming Presentation Award A legacy from Joyce Cuming – a sterling silvery Almoner’s plate. The winner receives a certificate.
Winner: Fiona Wheeler - Breadfruit (664)

Those Highly Commended volition live highlighted inwards a subsequent post.

The Margaret Granger Memorial Silver Bowl In retention of Margaret for the best icon exhibit yesteryear a fellow member elected inwards the final 2 years.
Winner: Norma Gregory SBA - for a torso of work, but particularly the Coltsfoot Seedhead

Winner of Margaret Granger Memorial Award
Body of operate esp. Coltsfoot Seed-head (£1,250) by Norma Gregory SBA
watercolour, torso color as well as acrylic

This was a real impressive slice - quite different anything I've seen before.  I gauge it's worth remembering that judges are ever to a greater extent than probable to notation as well as retrieve a operate which is unique.

Suzanne Lucas Memorial Award In retention of Founder President Suzanne Lucas
Winner: Robert McNeill Assoc SBA - Abies koreana 'Carron'

Winner of the Suzanne Lucas Memorial Award
Robert McNeill Assoc SBA as well as Abies koreana 'Carron' (£5,500)
watercolour

Robert lately retired from full-time teaching as well as is right away devoting himself to edifice upwards his portfolio.  That's because his starting fourth dimension iii botanical paintings are all hanging inwards the exhibition! Not alone were they all accepted but they await extremely impressive on the wall.  Plus his watercolour icon of a Korean Fir tree won both a prize as well as a Certificate of Botanical Merit!  Now that's quite something!

Robert is the hubby of the real successful botanical creative mortal Fiona Strickland SBA (see my interview alongside Fiona final year).  Like her he has switched from icon inwards crude oil as well as acrylic to watercolour as well as has demonstrated a tremendous degree of competence inwards what he's done to date.  Fiona commented that throughout their fine art teaching as well as subsequent careers they have very often done things together.  I tin good imagine we'll live seeing articulation hubby as well as married adult woman exhibitions from these 2 inwards galleries inwards future.

Note:  Fans of Fiona's operate volition be disappointed to larn she has no operate inwards the exhibition this yr every bit she has been working on no less than 43 hand-painted illustrations for a novel majority close cooking alongside eggs. 

Daler-Rowney Award A wooden boxed laid upwards of Daler-Rowney Artists’ Watercolours
Winner:  Janet Pope Assoc SBA - Potato growth Cycles I-III (515-517)

Janet Pope beingness presented alongside the Daler-Rowney Award

Harvest Time yesteryear Annie Soudain

Great Art Award For an outstanding exhibit. The winner chooses £500.00 of materials from the Great Art catalogue
Winner: Annie Soudain SBA - for a torso of operate - reduction linocuts of Great Dixter, Harvet Time, Iced Over, Bluebell Dell as well as Canal Bank

I was kicking myself over this - I've photographed Annie's operate many times every bit her reduction linocut operate is real impressive.  However for unopen to argue I didn't this time.  However I practice have got a photograph of i of the images which are business office of her torso of operate this time.

Derwent Award For an outstanding operate inwards a pencil medium. The winner receives chooses £200.00 of materials from the Derwent catalogue
Winner:  Linda Hampson SBA - "Lily Stargazer" (271)

Winner Derwent Award
"Lily Stargazer - Dark Pink" (271) (£350 - SOLD) by Linda Hampson SBA

coloured pencil as well as pastel

The People’s Choice Award will live chosen yesteryear visitors to the exhibition.

Demonstrations

There are daily demonstrations yesteryear SBA members working inwards a diversity of different media used for botanical art.  Those remaining are:

• Sunday, xiv Apr Jan Harbon SBA Watercolour 
• Monday, fifteen Apr Sue Vize SBA Graphite
• Tuesday, sixteen Apr Elizabeth Hellman AssocSBA and Janet Lye AssocSBA, DLDC graduates - Techniques learned on Distance Learning Diploma Course 
• Wednesday, 17 Apr Roger Reynolds SBA Watercolour pencils
• Thursday, xviii April, 11.15am–5pm Billy Showell SBA Watercolour
• Friday, nineteen April, 11am–5pm Simon Williams SBA Gouache
• Saturday, twenty Apr Joyce Rogerson SBA Miniature painting
• Sunday, 21 Apr Ann Swan SBA Coloured pencil

LINKS:

2013 Exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists: "The Language of Flowers" - Call for Entries outlines the requirements of those submitting entries to this opened upwards exhibition

2012 Exhibition

• Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries - an overview of what's required for those wanting to come inwards operate for the Annual Exhibition
• Society of Botanical Artists Submission Day - as well as a botanical egg - a icon exhibit of the procedure on Submission Day
• Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA 2012 - identifies the artists as well as images which this yr were awarded a CBM
• 2012 Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Art's Annual Exhibition - highlights the chief prizewinners
• A 'Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark' Profile of Fiona Strickland close an interview alongside Fiona Strickland

Resources for Botanical Artists

[August 2016 - updated]

• See my website Botanical Art as well as Artists - for everything from Herbals to RHS Botanical Art Shows to Botanical Latin for Artists
• Find out to a greater extent than close books close botanical fine art in 
• The Best Botanical Art Instruction Books
• The Best Books close Botanical Artists & Illustrators
• Regular posts close botanical fine art right away appear often on my novel blog News close Botanical Art as well as for Botanical Artists
• This spider web log has a page with Links to all my reviews as well as lists of prizewinners of Society of Botanical Art exhibitions over the years

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