Yesterday's Private View of the
Annual Exhibition of the
Society of Botanical Artists was yet i time again an occasion to run into old friends equally good equally catch closed to wonderful fine art inward a rattling good hung exhibition.
This twelvemonth the exhibition has 603 drawings together with paintings inward the chief display together with eighteen miniatures together with 3D works. These were selected from good over 900 entries.
The layout seems to me to survive working ameliorate than final twelvemonth alongside fewer 'skied' pictures which meant fewer problems alongside white outs from the lighting.
The theme this twelvemonth is "
In pursuit of plants" together with equally ever it's ever fascinating to consider how this has been interpreted yesteryear the dissimilar artists. (
Next twelvemonth the theme is "Shape, Pattern together with Structure" which I'm rattling excited almost equally it's all the things I similar almost plants!)
I'm going to focus inward this postal service on the chief prizewinners and
- give a to a greater extent than considered sentiment of the travel inward the present inward my postal service on Sunday
- highlight those who won a Certificate of Botanical Merit on Monday.
That's because knowing to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than people every year, i ends upward spending to a greater extent than fourth dimension talking together with less fourth dimension looking together with because I'm going dorsum to consider the exhibition i time again this afternoon to consider the demo almost icon on vellum together with review the exhibition i time again together with then I tin pick out the pieces I desire to highlight. So sad non to render to a greater extent than almost the exhibition overall at this stage!
I'll too survive highlighting the
Tours together with Demonstrations dates together with members involved at the halt of this post
The Exhibition is opened upward from 11.00am to 5.00pm every twenty-four hours betwixt 17 to 26 Apr 2015 at Westminster Central Hall, Storey’s Gate, London SW1H 9NH.
But starting fourth dimension the prizes - together with this year, for the rattling starting fourth dimension time, I larn a mention!!
Society of Botanical Art - 2015 Awards
Gardener, author together with broadcaster Matthew Biggs to opened upward the exhibition together with was rattling enthusiastic almost the measure of travel on display. He too presented the prizes.
The Joyce Cuming Presentation Award
This is a legacy from Joyce Cuming – a sterling silverish Almoner’s plate. The winner receives a certificate. It is nonetheless i of the awards which are most prized equally this i too produces a listing of people who were Highly Commended during the alternative process.
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Gael Selwood accepting her observe - the silverish plate of
The Joyce Cuming Presentation Award |
The winner this twelvemonth was
Gael Selwood GM SBA PGCE, FEATC Cert HE(BotIll) for
Hydrangea macrophylla 'King George' from her 2014 RHS Gold Medal winning exhibit of tumble together with wintertime hydrangeas (at Malven).
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Gael Selwood asset the Joyce Cuming silverish plate high inward a higher house her head
with her watercolour icon of Hydrangea macrophylla 'King George' |
Those
Highly Commended included the next artists (attribution is inward the caption to the image)
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Roses (watercolour) £400 yesteryear Tsuyako Elliott SBA
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lovely fragile icon which tells you lot a lot almost this rose. |
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Malus 'Evereste' (coloured pencil) £350 yesteryear Maya Thomi SBA
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 total bargain! |
The Margaret Granger Memorial Silver Bowl
This observe is given inward retentiveness of Margaret Granger for the best film yesteryear a fellow member elected inward the final 2 years.
This was won yesteryear
Margaret Eccles SBA (for paintings 138-142) which included closed to actually fantabulous Brussels Sprouts! Definitely a develop of paintings worth a closer look. Her travel was too beautifully presented inward apartment neutral frames.
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| Margaret Eccles alongside the Margaret Granger Silver Memorial Bowl together with her work |
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Another i of Fiona Strickland's students wins an award!
Margaret Eccles was presented alongside her bowl
- to concur for a few minutes earlier it goes dorsum to the vaults! |
Suzanne Lucas Memorial Award
This observe is inward retentiveness of Founder President Suzanne Lucas (whose 100th Birthday would quest hold been this year). The 2015 winner was
Linda Alexander AROI SBA for her exhibit of fossil oil paintings on linen.
Linda is i of the few botanical artists who has ventured into the footing of the media fine art societies together with has perish accepted and, I believe, sells well. I'm ever nifty to promote the creative mortal who takes together with promotes botanical fine art inside the wider fine art guild world.
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Linda Alexander won the Suzanne Lucas Award
This is Purple Iris (oil on linen - £1,950) |
The President’s Award for travel inward other media
This is a cash prize for travel inward media other than watercolour - won this twelvemonth yesteryear
Penny Brown DipSBA (Dist.) SBA SFP for her multi media cutting newspaper collage works (57-59). Penny told me she to a greater extent than oft than non uses coloured papers made yesteryear Fabriano equally these are lightfast together with adds inward modest touches alongside watercolour and/or coloured pencils. She cuts closed to of the shapes together with uses a scalpel for the rest!
Penny is too a former house develop designer together with helps the President out each twelvemonth alongside creating the computer program of where the paintings hold all the walls - she starts alongside lots of rattling modest images of every icon together with cuts them out together with positions them on a model of every wall! Which is why the exhibition looks equally expert equally it does!
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| Penny Brown alongside Clematis florida 'Sieboldii' - a multi media cutting newspaper collage |
MEDIA AWARDS
These are sponsored yesteryear companies associated alongside fine art materials
Great Art Award
This year's winner of this prize - for an outstanding exhibit - is
Beth Phillip GM SBA CBM 2008 together with 2010 B.Sc (Hons), Dip Ed. for her outstanding paintings inward the 'red' department of the exhibition. I call upward everybody who saw her magnolia seedheads commented on them - it's a actually magnificent image! These were complemented - to its left - yesteryear her 2 paintings of Sarracenias.
Beth directly gets to select £500.00 of materials from the Great Art catalogue
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Beth Phillip's watercolour icon of
Fruits of Magnolia Sprengeri var. diva 'Westonbirt' (£1,495)
- which too won a Certificate of Botanical Merit |
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| Beth Phillip's watercolour paintings of Sarracenia Hybrids (£1,400 each) |
Derwent Award
This is for an outstanding travel inward a pencil medium. The winner receives chooses £200.00 of materials from the Derwent catalogue. The winner this twelvemonth is
Carmen Lyons DipFA for (I believe) her trunk of work.
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The Derwent Award for Outstanding Pencil ArtTwo of the 4 coloured pencil drawings exhibited yesteryear Carmen Lyons DipFA
(left) Raspberry together with Watercolour Crush £450
(right) Nepenthes truncata £650 |
Strathmore Artist Papers Award
This is a NEW observe for 2015 sponsored yesteryear i of the leading makers of fine fine art newspaper inward the USA.
The criteria for the novel observe for the most innovative composition are:
- form inside the subject
- the data the artwork provides almost the subject; and
- the "feeling" for the subject
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| Linda Alexander beingness presented alongside the Strathmore Artist Papers award |
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Still life alongside Figs yesteryear Linda Alexander
(oil inward linen £1,495) |
Honorary mentions included:
This was my artwork which got an Honorary Mention
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| Echevaria Laui by Katherine Tyrrell(coloured pencils) |
St Cuthbert's Mill Award
The observe is newspaper to the value of £100 for an outstanding watercolour painting.
Julia Patience ASBA won this observe for her serial of paintings using watercolour together with ink. [I'm going to consider whether I tin larn a ameliorate photograph of this today]
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| Two watercolour together with ink paintings yesteryear Julie Patience |
Tours together with Demonstrations  |
| Demonstrations together with Top Ten Tours |
All the tours are FREE nonetheless Donations to the Society (which is a charity) volition survive welcomed.
Top Ten Tours of the Exhibition
In her starting fourth dimension twelvemonth equally President, Sandra Armitage decided she's similar to case tours of the exhibition yesteryear members together with I get together they were a large success - together with then this twelvemonth in that place are MORE tours alongside dissimilar themes! It's hard to determine which to pick - I'm drawn to all of them!
- Friday 17 April,Yvonne Glenister Hammond SBA Light together with shade
- Wednesday, 22 Apr Angeline de Meester SBA Delightful details
- Thursday, 23 Apr Gael Sellwood SBA Vellum together with other surfaces
- Friday, 24 Apr Janie Pirie SBA Coloured pencils
- Sunday, 25 Apr Billy Showell SBA Composition
Demonstrations at In Pursuit of Plants
These volition to a greater extent than oft than non commence at 1.30pm
- Friday, 17 April, 11am—2pm Claire Ward SBA Contemporary watercolours
- Friday, 17 April, 2pm—5pm Shevaun Doherty SBA Contemporary watercolours
- Saturday, eighteen Apr Guy William Eves SBA Graphite
- Sunday, nineteen Apr Simon Williams SBA Gouache (Simon is the Director of the Diploma Course)
- Monday, 20 Apr Amber Halsall SBA Acrylic ink: mixing mediums
- Tuesday, 21 Apr Ann Swan SBA Combining graphite together with coloured pencil
- Wednesday, 22 Apr Linda Hampson SBA Exotics inward mixed media
- Thursday, 23 Apr Sue J Williams SBA Dark flowers together with leaf inward watercolour
- Friday, 24 Apr Janie Pirie SBA Coloured pencils
- Saturday, 25 Apr Gael Sellwood SBA Found objects on vellum
- Sunday, 26 Apr Billy Showell SBA Glowing watercolour
More data almost Botanical Art
You tin read to a greater extent than almost
- the Society of Botanical Art: Exhibitions 2006-2014 on my blog (scroll down)
- everything relating to Botanical Art together with Botanical Artists - from Herbals to Botanical Latin for Artists - via my NEW compendium website Botanical Art together with Artists - which launched yesterday at noon. By the fourth dimension I got dorsum domicile but earlier midnight it had received c.1,000 page views together with then many thank you lot to all of you lot who quest hold been sharing the link! (I've wondered almost giving it a shorthand call of 'Botanical AA' - because it's for existent addicts!)
- you tin too notice almost books almost botanical fine art in my 2 mass sites
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