Other Prizewinners At The Sba Annual Exhibition 2013

Every yr the Society of Botanical Artists awards Certificates of Botanical Merit to those whose operate is judged outstanding inwards damage of strict botanical illustration.  Other artists are highly commended for their artwork amongst abide by to the Joyce Cuming Award

Certificate of Botanical Merit

The viii artists who this yr were awarded Certificates of Botanical Merit are listed below.  There are links inwards the names of artists who conduct maintain websites or a page most them on the SBA website.  If the artwork is on their website I conduct maintain too linked to that every bit well

Name	Title	No.
Karen L Bailey AssocSBA	Agapanthus umbellatus ‘Albus’ Seed head	24
Gill Cann AssocSBA	Chinese Lanterns	102
Sheila Etchingham SBA	Veltheimia bracteata Forest Lily	197
Norma Gregory SBA	Rheum	253
Asako Kuwajima SBA	Prunus x yedoensis	377
Robert McNeill Assoc SBA	Abies koreana ‘Carron’	445
Sally Pond DipEGS(Dist)	Brambles	514
Ann Sheppard	Acanthus	570

You tin encounter photographs of some of the award-winning operate below.  However, I cannot emphasise plenty that photographing the operate inwards no agency does it justice!  I'm non certain why (very brilliant lighting?) but for some argue I'm having a lot of problems processing my photographs this yr so that the color is fifty-fifty dorsum to the colours seen inwards the exhibition.

The exclusively agency to appreciate botanical artwork properly is to see the Annual Exhibition - which is at Central Hall Westminster until Lord's Day 21st April. (Admission free)

Agapanthus umbellatus ‘Albus’ Seed head
watercolour (£225)
© Karen L Bailey

Rheum
watercolour together with graphite (£1,375)
© Norma Gregory

Norma Gregory is a Fellow of Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society. She too won

• the The Margaret Granger Memorial Silver Bowl for a trunk of work. Her Coltsfoot was highlighted inwards my concluding postal service Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2013
• and an RHS Gold Medal inwards 2011 when I interviewed her - see RHS Botanical Art Show & Five Gold Medal Winners when she was too displaying another perspective on rhubarb.  Norma has 3 Gold Medals inwards total.  This is from my interview amongst her 2011 - together with greenback when she started doing botanical art.

Norma is a natural history creative somebody who exclusively started doing botanical fine art inwards 2006. She won her real showtime Gold Medal the same yr which is some feat! Norma's display was all most roots together with beginning vegetables. I'm ever real drawn to those who display the less showy parts of plants together with Norma had a actually keen serial of paintings most roots - I absolutely loved the rhubarb (see above)!

Brambles
Watercolour (£500)
© Sally Pond

Sally says this most her paradigm on her website

This paradigm illustrates the abstract qualities of a bare, winter, bramble hedge. It shows the vehement forcefulness of the thorns together with the subtle color together with arc of the canes, finding a stark beauty inwards the leafless hegderow.

Abies koreana 'Carron' 

watercolour (£5,500)

© Robert McNeill Assoc SBA

Robert McNeill won a Certificate of Merit for his Abies Koreana 'Carron' inwards improver to the Suzanne Lucas Memorial Award.

This is his 3rd botanical paradigm inwards watercolour.  Apparently the tree - which is a a fir native to the higher mountains of South Korea - grows inwards his garden inwards Scotland.  It's a composite of angles which does non expect similar a composite, nevertheless each angle demonstrates the twisted increment designing of the leaves along each shoot.

Highly Commended for the Joyce Cuming Award

The other Award which attracts advert recognition is the Highly Commended condition inwards relation to the Joyce Cuming Award

Name	Title	No.
Julia Blower	Chrysanthemum ‘Tom Pearce’	66
Shevaun Docherty AssocSBA	Ripening Date	173
Valerie Dugan SBA	Ornamental Corn	178
Rosemary Lindsay SBA	Shoo-Fly Plant	403
Kate Nuttall SBA	Greater Reedmace	470
Akiko Sato	Pokeweed	560
Julie Whelan DipSBA	Honeysuckle amongst virile somebody ruby-throated Hummingbird	672

Here are images of some of the works which were highly commended

Chrysanthemum ‘Tom Pearce’
Watercolour (£800)
©  Julia Blower

Phoenix dactylifera - Ripening Dates
watercolour (£450)
©  Shevaun Docherty DipSBA (Dist.), Assoc SBA

The dates dorsum to when Shevaun was living inwards Arab Republic of Egypt - which is when I showtime got to listen from her 2 years agone - see Botanical Art nether fire (about botanical fine art spell a revolution is going on exterior the window).  Since together with then she has moved dorsum to Ireland, gained her Diploma inwards Botanical Illustration amongst Distinction inwards 2012 together with this yr has been busy amongst other botanical artists inwards Republic of Ireland starting the Irish Society of Botanical Artists.

Pokeweed
watercolour (£700)
©  Akiko Sato 

Julie Whelan amongst President Vickie Marsh standing adjacent to her Highly Commended Work
Honeysuckle amongst virile somebody ruby-throated Hummingbird

watercolour (£330)
©  Julie Whelan

Julie has a wonderful conduct maintain on the Language of Flowers - together with the purpose birds play inwards pollination which she explains on her blog.

One to a greater extent than weblog postal service volition consummate this year's review of the Annual Exhibition which continues until Lord's Day at Westminster Central Hall - contrary Westminster Abbey - until Sunday, 21 Apr 2013. It's gratuitous to last into together with is opened upward every 24-hour interval betwixt 11am to 5pm including Sundays.

2013 Exhibition Links:

• Society of Botanical Artists http://www.soc-botanical-artists.org/
• Making H5N1 Mark - Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA 2012
• Making H5N1 Mark - Society of Botanical Artists: "The Language of Flowers" - Call for Entries outlines the requirements of those submitting entries to this opened upward exhibition

Makingamark's Botanical Art Resources

• Makingamark's Botanical Art Compendium
• Botanical Art - Resources for Artists
• A History of Botanical Art - Resources for Botanical Art Lovers
• The Best Botanical Art Books

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