'Black Too White Inwards Colour' At Kew Gardens - A Review

Black too White inwards Colour
Paintings past times Sue Wickison

I tin highly recommend a watch 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 past times ii botanical artists Sue Wickison too Sue J Williams. These ii artists are extremely good travelled too accept painted botanical flora all over the world.

The exhibition opened terminal calendar month too continues until Sunday v Jan 2014 - too hence enough of fourth dimension to encounter it too mayhap 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 to a greater extent than or less of her work

Sue Wickison has been interested inwards natural history all her liife. She has too travelled extensively collecting botanical specimens. Her botanical ikon career started amongst an Honours grade inwards Scientific Illustration too she worked for a set 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 instantly 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 ikon a lot of plants I don't encounter regularly - too they've frequently got a distinct sculptural experience to them. They're for certain really striking - too I honey her large format paintings which are really 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 dissimilar countries because of her husband's operate has enabled her to brand kickoff paw studies of a set out of native flora of dissimilar countries.

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

Part of the display of Sue J Williams' artwork

Black too white are ii colours which e'er perplex those of us who elbow grease to homecoming the colours accurately piece 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 accept ready a display instance amongst samples of how their operate usually progresses from kickoff sketch, through color mixing too towards a frame too an exhibition.

A display instance of sketches too try-outs too pigment mix samples past times Sue J Williams
all the normal "working papers" of the botanical artist!
(Please banker's complaint this was really 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 past times Sue Wickison

One of the interesting aspects of the exhibition is they accept focused on aspects of establish 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 topic is 1 of opposites too contrasts, the aim to present the variations inwards color inside an obviously restricted palette. The contrasts include the scale of their paintings too the diverseness of their dependent acre affair – 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 close visiting volition go able to encounter non 1 but 3 exhibitions:

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

If you lot desire to maintain runway of exhibitions at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery I propose 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 but continuously opened upward gallery inwards the footing dedicated alone to botanical art. It holds regular exhibitions throughout the twelvemonth featuring historical too contemporary botanical illustrations.

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