Prizewinners At Gild Of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2013

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

I'm exactly close to start writing upward the exhibitions visited together with artists I've spoken to inwards the concluding 3 days - but given the fact I'm yet suffering from the 3rd attack of the dreaded lurgy this mightiness live a flake slow.

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

Society of Botanical Art - 2013 Awards

Vickie Marsh led the Awards ceremony.  This is her last twelvemonth equally President of the SBA.

The topic of this year's exhibition is "The Language of Flowers" is existence held at its normal venue - Westminster Central Hall - opposite Westminster Abbey - until Sunday, 21 Apr 2013. It's costless to come inwards together with is opened upward every solar daytime 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 piece of employment inwards other media Cash prize for piece of employment 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 together with ink amongst coloured pencil

I'm really fond of pen together with ink piece of employment together with was really pleased to run into all Rachel's piece of employment inwards the exhibition.  She also had a delightful Fading Peony.

The Margaret Stevens Award For piece of employment reflecting trouble 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 together with Leaves from Bath Botanical Garden (£1,800)
watercolour on total sheet

If you lot click the championship of this paradigm you lot tin run into a larger version of Julia's website.  Julia told me she was inspired to produce it by Rachel Pedder's painting.  She started bottom correct together with worked across the canvass - together with it took all twelvemonth to produce because of the request to stand upward for leaves inwards different seasons.  This paradigm is on a total canvass of deckle edged Arches 300lb HP - painted on the contrary side - but I'm certain the adjacent i is going to live on newspaper from St Cuthbert's Mill!  I don't often run into float mounted deckled edged piece of employment inwards the SBA exhibition but this i looked really good.

Watch out for Julia inwards my posts close the RHS Show - she won her quaternary Gold Medal the adjacent solar daytime at the RHS Show!

You tin also run into her piece of employment inwards the ‘What We Collect: Recent Art Acquisitions’, 2007- 2012 Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh. USA 22 March-30 June 2013  Her leafage is existence used equally the motif for the exhibition on their website.

The Joyce Cuming Presentation Award A legacy from Joyce Cuming – a sterling argent 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 motion-picture present yesteryear a fellow member elected inwards the concluding 2 years.
Winner: Norma Gregory SBA - for a trunk of work, but particularly the Coltsfoot Seedhead

Winner of Margaret Granger Memorial Award
Body of piece of employment esp. Coltsfoot Seed-head (£1,250) by Norma Gregory SBA
watercolour, trunk color together with acrylic

This was a really impressive slice - quite dissimilar anything I've seen before.  I approximate it's worth remembering that judges are ever to a greater extent than probable to notation together with call back a piece of employment 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 together with Abies koreana 'Carron' (£5,500)
watercolour

Robert of late retired from full-time teaching together with is directly devoting himself to edifice upward his portfolio.  That's because his commencement 3 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 paradigm of a Korean Fir tree won both a prize together with a Certificate of Botanical Merit!  Now that's quite something!

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

Note:  Fans of Fiona's piece of employment volition be disappointed to larn she has no piece of employment inwards the exhibition this twelvemonth equally she has been working on no less than 43 hand-painted illustrations for a novel mass close cooking amongst eggs. 

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

Janet Pope existence presented amongst 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 trunk of piece of employment - reduction linocuts of Great Dixter, Harvet Time, Iced Over, Bluebell Dell together with Canal Bank

I was kicking myself over this - I've photographed Annie's piece of employment many times equally her reduction linocut piece of employment is really impressive.  However for about argue I didn't this time.  However I produce have got a photograph of i of the images which are piece of employment of her trunk of piece of employment this time.

Derwent Award For an outstanding piece of employment 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 together with 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, xvi 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, xix 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 upward 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 piece of employment for the Annual Exhibition
• Society of Botanical Artists Submission Day - together with a botanical egg - a motion-picture present of the procedure on Submission Day
• Certificates of Botanical Merit at SBA 2012 - identifies the artists together with images which this twelvemonth were awarded a CBM
• 2012 Prizewinners at Society of Botanical Art's Annual Exhibition - highlights the original prizewinners
• A 'Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark' Profile of Fiona Strickland close an interview amongst Fiona Strickland

Resources for Botanical Artists

[August 2016 - updated]

• See my website Botanical Art together with 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 directly appear often on my novel blog News close Botanical Art together with for Botanical Artists
• This weblog has a page with Links to all my reviews together with lists of prizewinners of Society of Botanical Art exhibitions over the years

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