Rhs Gilded Medal Winning Botanical Photography
Last calendar week I went to the RHS London Shades of Autumn Show at the RHS Horticultural Halls, Westminster. This present had an Exhibition of Botanical Photography. This photography is rattling much leaning towards the aesthetic together with artistic terminate of botanical photography every bit good every bit recording plants, flowers, fruit together with vegetables together with gardens.
Below are photographs of the 2 Gold Medal Winners - Clay Perry (Norfolk) together with Nigel Chapman (Hampshire).
Clay Perry GM
The showtime is professional person photographer Clay Perry who champaign entered at the terminal infinitesimal later beingness told well-nigh the exhibition.
This was Clay's showtime RHS Show. However he has previously shown his portfolio of Heritage Fruits together with Vegetables at RHS Wisley inward connector alongside the publication of his mass Heritage Fruits & Vegetables
published past times Thames together with Hudson - alongside text written past times Toby Musgrave. He wanted to draw attending to the loss of traditional vegetable varieties together with managed to become RHS Publications interested inward the idea. He hence began the long procedure of sourcing and photographing all the unlike fruits and vegetables for the book. He was helped enormously past times the The Lost Gardens of Heligan which focuses on the traditional varieties. They shipped the fruit together with vegetables to his studio together with hence he laid upward well-nigh finding the best agency to photograph them.
I recognised that they were a homage to a Castilian nevertheless life creative mortal whose yell I tin never remember. Which is how Clay together with I ended upward having a give-and-take well-nigh Juan Sanchez Cotan (1561 - 1627) who is renowned for his nevertheless life paintings - alongside a dark background - of fruits together with vegetables, some of which are hung on a string. (More well-nigh this painter side past times side week). Apparently Clay together with Cotan portion a birthday having both been born on the 25th June.
For those interested inward buying i of his prints, Clay has kindly agreed to extend the offering made to those attending the exhibition to the readers of this blog. He has a express edition of prints of each icon inward 3 sizes.
All medium sized signed photographic fine art prints (16" x 10.5") tin live on purchased for £300 unframed (compared to the normal toll of £500 unframed) until seventh Nov past times quoting the RHS-AS code when purchasing from Clay's website. This is the link to buy prints where you lot tin encounter all the prints inward the heritage porfolio. Personally I dearest the Quince together with Cabbage suspended alongside melons.
Below are photographs of the 2 Gold Medal Winners - Clay Perry (Norfolk) together with Nigel Chapman (Hampshire).
Clay Perry GM
The showtime is professional person photographer Clay Perry who champaign entered at the terminal infinitesimal later beingness told well-nigh the exhibition.
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| Clay Perry - Gold Medal Winner Heritage Fruits together with Vegetables © Clay Perry |
published past times Thames together with Hudson - alongside text written past times Toby Musgrave. He wanted to draw attending to the loss of traditional vegetable varieties together with managed to become RHS Publications interested inward the idea. He hence began the long procedure of sourcing and photographing all the unlike fruits and vegetables for the book. He was helped enormously past times the The Lost Gardens of Heligan which focuses on the traditional varieties. They shipped the fruit together with vegetables to his studio together with hence he laid upward well-nigh finding the best agency to photograph them.I recognised that they were a homage to a Castilian nevertheless life creative mortal whose yell I tin never remember. Which is how Clay together with I ended upward having a give-and-take well-nigh Juan Sanchez Cotan (1561 - 1627) who is renowned for his nevertheless life paintings - alongside a dark background - of fruits together with vegetables, some of which are hung on a string. (More well-nigh this painter side past times side week). Apparently Clay together with Cotan portion a birthday having both been born on the 25th June.
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| © Clay Perry |
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| © Clay Perry |
All medium sized signed photographic fine art prints (16" x 10.5") tin live on purchased for £300 unframed (compared to the normal toll of £500 unframed) until seventh Nov past times quoting the RHS-AS code when purchasing from Clay's website. This is the link to buy prints where you lot tin encounter all the prints inward the heritage porfolio. Personally I dearest the Quince together with Cabbage suspended alongside melons.
Nigel Chapman GM
This was Nigel Chapman's 5th Gold Medal. He was the Royal Horticultural Society Photographer of the Year inward 2005 together with has previously won iv Gold Medals inward the RHS Autumn Exhibitions. You tin encounter his winning work on his website together with Flickr
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| Plants inward Close-Up past times Nigel Chapman |
His serial of Plants inward Close-Up appealed to me enormously because his macro approach reflects rattling much past times approach to botanical fine art where I similar to accept a close-up expect at the construction of a plant.
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© Nigel Chapman |
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© Nigel Chapman |
I bought i of Nigel's prints - the Traveller's Palm (bottom right) - mainly because this is what I was supposed to receive got completed for this year's SBA exhibition precisely I couldn't become it to work!
Nigel is every bit good offering his matted prints for sale at a discounted charge per unit of measurement of £35 for the same fourth dimension catamenia - upward to vii Nov - if you lot reference this weblog postal service to him. His images are 40cm x 30cm together with the mat is 50cm x 40cm. Contact him via his website if you lot are interested inward making a purchase - together with don't forget to yell this post!
Having looked approximately the remainder of the exhibition I did come upward away wondering whether I should come inward this contest side past times side year!
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