The Joy Of Saltation - An Exhibition Of Industrial Plant Inwards The Shirley Sherwood Collection

The Joy of Spring is coming to an destination at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. The final 24-hour interval of the exhibition is the ninth August after which the gallery closes for the installation of the side yesteryear side exhibition.  It's an exhibition which is good worth seeing...

The Joy of Spring features a sequence of glorious paintings of boundary flowers, each selected from the contemporary Shirley Sherwood Collection. This exhibition displays an array of wonderful boundary flowers, from snowdrops through to magnolias as well as camellias. Iconic boundary blooms such equally daffodils as well as bluebells volition also last included inwards the exhibition.

For those who accept non seen it you lot tin honor approximately highlights below.  

I made notes on my iPhone acre going circular of the artists whose run I establish peculiarly attractive and/or interesting.  While looking upward the best links online to each creative individual I discovered approximately to a greater extent than data almost them - which you lot tin also honor below.

One of the interesting things I noted when matching paintings to artists' websites is that at that spot appear to last absolutely no records of the paintings bought yesteryear Shirley Sherwood on their websites. Nor hit they seem to last available equally prints. Just a idea for those aspiring to bring together the collection ane day.

I establish it interesting comparison the styles of paintings of dissimilar artists. Some brand them completely lifelike acre approximately are rather over stylised as well as thus that they await 3D but somehow don't await besides existent - perchance because they are besides perfect. I wonder if this reflects the alter inwards tastes as well as styles of botanical icon over time?

My favourite icon is Susan Christopher Coulson's 'The Winter Garden, scented twigs as well as feisty flowers' which captures perfectly all those flowers which are business office of the transition from wintertime to spring. I'm also a huge fan of her compendium drawings which are e'er designed both thoughtfully as well as effectively. I e'er pass ages staring at her artwork.

'The Winter Garden, scented twigs as well as feisty flowers'

© Suan Christopher Coulson

Other paintings I really much liked included:

• Kate Nessler's snowdrops on vellum. This is A Conversation with Kate Nessler By Joyce Westner which originally appeared inwards The Botanical Artist – Volume 15, Issue 1 (on the ASBA website)
• an amazing icon of a Equus caballus chestnut yesteryear Martin J Allen
• a dandelion yesteryear Italian creative individual Marilena Pistoia (b.1933). The Hunt Collection has a considerable issue of paintings yesteryear Marilena Pistoia due to an exhibition of her Botanical Watercolors held at the Hunt inwards 1989/90.

This exhibition featured selected artworks done yesteryear Marilena Pistoia of Modena, Italy, for 3 publications: F. Bianchini as well as F. Corbetta, I Fruitti della Terra (The consummate mass of fruits as well as vegetables) as well as Le Piante della Salute (Health plants of the world: Atlas of medicinal plants) as well as Laura Peroni, Il Linguaggio dei Fiori(The linguistic communication of flowers), all published inwards Italy yesteryear Arnoldo Mondadori betwixt 1973 as well as 1984 as well as after inwards America yesteryear Crown as well as yesteryear Newsweek. The creative individual donated all the master copy paintings for these books to the Institute.

Some of the paintings inwards the exhibition
Far Left: Susan Christopher Coulson
Next: Snowdrops yesteryear Kate Nessler

• A huge wonderful icon of dandelions as well as other flowers by Rosie Sanders called ferns bluebell wild garlic xanthous archangel as well as dandelion 
• There is a stunning pinkish rhododendron painted inwards gouache on dark newspaper yesteryear Sally Kier (who died inwards 2007).  Her obituary inwards The Guardian notes...

She was commissioned yesteryear Shirley Sherwood, a renowned collector of botanical art, to pigment a pinkish rhododendron, which featured inwards her worldwide exhibition of botanical fine art inwards 1997. Her paintings were also included inwards the gouache department of Margaret Stevens' book, The Art of Botanical Painting. She sold to a greater extent than than 450 works, as well as several of her paintings were used equally greetings cards as well as sold commercially.

• Mieko Ishikawa's icon of flowering cherries (Prunus pendula) is impressive. She evidently paints inside 3 themes only:  “Flowering Cherries of Japan”, “Tropical Rainforest Plants of Borneo” and “Conifers.” There's a prissy article almost her on the ASBA site - Mieko Ishikawa's Story Behind the Art which focuses on her icon of the mysterious Rafflesia, a parasite of vines inwards Borneo.
• There's a delightful icon by Pandora Sellers of Snakeshead fritillaries as well as cowslips 
• Jessica Tcherepnine's 'Crown Imperial' looks equally if it's dancing! The leaves are wonderful. 
• This is the ASBA article almost Jessica Tcherepnine's Story behind the Art. 
• This is a 1997 New York Times article almost her Portrait Of a Plant
• I at ane time know why Katie Lee was chosen to hit a icon of Isaac Stern's favourite Dogwood Tree - equally featured on the encompass of his exhibition catalogue!  Dr Sherwood got at that spot first!  

TIP  Do ane icon actually good as well as others volition committee you lot to hit more!

• There's a icon by Johann Christoph Dietzsch (1710 - 1769) of apple blossom - painted using watercolour as well as trunk color on prepared vellum with a nighttime background.  According to this article inwards The Economist - this is the creative individual who prompted Dr Sherwood to suspension her dominion to solely purchase run yesteryear contemporary artists.
• There's a icon yesteryear Paul Jones Commonwealth of Australia (1921 -1997) of a Camellia Paul Jones supreme. It's an immaculate painting in acrylic on a graded nighttime buff background - as well as it's really effective. (see paradigm below). You tin run into a listing of all his works which accept been sold at auction in Australia. Plus his papers are inwards the National Library of Australia - run into the comment from the summary below.

Jones’ major book, Flora Superba (1971), published inwards the same yr that he was awarded an OBE for his services to art, carried a preface from Sir George Taylor, Director of London’s Kew Gardens: ‘They are technically astounding, scientifically exact as well as aesthetically as well as thus thoughtful as well as pleasing that, without risking hyperbole, I would orbit them alongside the really finest achievements inwards the whole gallery of botanical art.”

• Olga Makrushenko (b. Russian Federation 1956) has a icon of a deep pinkish magnolia, painted inwards mixed media on paper. This is a gorgeous deep pinkish color as well as pattern as well as it's a really fine icon (which is bit from correct below)

Extreme left - In the background is the icon yesteryear Paul Jones
as well as bit from correct is the icon yesteryear Olga Makrushenko

Also included inwards the exhibition are the working drawings as well as the finished artwork produced yesteryear Julia Trickey for the Royal Mail for the Post as well as Go Collection - British Flora (Spring Blooms) Stamp Set. Julia has also produced a publication Plant Portraits yesteryear Post (Published yesteryear Two Rivers Press) almost the procedure as well as pitfalls of producing the Royal Mail British Flora illustrations.  Plus a icon from her final exhibit at the RHS Botanical Art Show.

Julia Trickey's artwork for the Royal Mail's British Flora (Spring Blooms) Stamp Set

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