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Beautiful Gardens - traditional & wild Botanic Wonders…Spring at its Best!
Beth McAnoy - Iris Germanica
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Marion Chapman - Kitchen Garden
Jo Reitze - Cloudehill in Summer
The third in a new and exciting program of exhibitions presented at the Domain House Gallery during 2013, the PICTURE THIS… exhibition presents outstanding artworks of 14 Victorian Artists whose understanding and love of gardens and plants permeates their artistic achievements. This innovative project encouraging plant conservation and sustainability is proudly presented by OzLink Entertainment in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
art begins with the careful study of plants. Accurate botanical information and tremendous attention to relevant botanical details is wedded with artistic expression in a wide range of styles. Even a fairly small drawing or painting can easily take more than 50 hours to complete, a meditative process that creates a special relationship between the artist and subject.
Botanic Artist, Stephanie Goss presents appealing Figs on branch, Crab Apples & Quinces along with her contemporary Moroccan Pears. “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, Beth McAnoy’s the source of my inspiration. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” Iris, Hydrangea, - Claude Monet Cyclamen & Rhododendron The GARDENS exploding from the watercolours are a true delight canvases, include both traditional to the eye while the impressive and wild spaces, capturing the and fascinating detail in Heather enchantments in a very private Simkin’s Eremophila, Mangrove garden to those of a very public park. Bud, Grevillea Longistyla and Allium From public gardens is Jan Martin’s Sativum are indeed, remarkable. exquisite series of Monet’s Garden The viewer cannot help but admire paintings (painted ‘en-plein air’ in Silvi Glattauer’s technique using Giverney); Cloudehill Gardens, Olinda, Photopolymer Gravure and Pigmented as colourfully captured by Jo Reitze, ink on cotton rag to produce her a specialist painter of gardens; shimmering prints entitled Hydrangeo, Kamesburgh Gardens, Brighton, Fuego & Sombras II and Vida Pearson’s whimsically represented by Jane superb hand-coloured linocuts are Walker and Matisse’s lovely Garden, simply magical artworks featuring Vence, portrayed by Margaret Gurney. her Waratah, Large-fruited Mallee The Kitchen Garden, Kate’s Garden & & Macrocarpa I & II images. Tea in the Garden by Marion Chapman “ A garden is a friend you can along with Carmel’s Garden and a visit any time.” - Anon Cottage Garden by Margaret Cowling and Angela Abbott’s Lily Pond & Strelizlas images, charmingly bring private garden spaces to life.
PICTURE THIS…Beautiful Gardens - traditional & wild Botanic Wonders…Spring at its Best!
The ‘wilder’ garden is fetchingly depicted in Delwyn Lane’s A Sheltered Nook & Garden Companions and Maggie Chiara Cowling’s Dargo & creek watercolours.
November 7 - 24, 2013 Domain House Gallery, Dallas Brooks Drive, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Gallery Hours: Thursdays 12 noon – 8pm /Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays 11 am – 5 pm - FREE
Botanic wonders are featured by three of Victoria’s top Botanic Artists whose contemporary approach to botanical