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Rare Opportunity to Own Lizzie Sanders Paintings from a Private Collection
Lizzie Sanders (1944-2020) was a master contemporary botanical artist whose talent is world renowned. She carefully chose specimens that conveyed beauty through form and composed her subjects with the utmost care to show their fragility or regality, no matter its … Continue reading
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In the Beginning: Botanical Drawings
The foundation of master botanical drawing lies in the artist’s passion for the subject. Botanical artists mostly begin with outlining the plant’s anatomy while infusing the line with the indescribable quotient of inspiration. Their honed technique brings the plant to … Continue reading
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Denise Walser-Kolar, “My Dad’s Garden” (Morden’s Blush Rose Hips)
Here, the artist focuses on part of the plant normally hidden under the petal of the rose. As we explore the painting, we come across a tiny worm munching on leaves, juxtaposing life with its expiration. This awakens us to … Continue reading
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Welcome Susan Rubin!
Susan Frei Nathan Fine Works on Paper is excited to welcome and represent Susan Rubin. The artist uses maps as her substrate combined with a mylar overlay depicting the specific botanical species to its origin. This botanical … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Begin Again: Flat Files
The idea of an artist beginning a work and reworking the image over time is particularly challenging with botanical art. Since many of the artists in this exhibition initially are inspired to paint live plants, often captured during their short … Continue reading
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Upcoming Spring Exhibition: The Flat File 2021
Check out www.sfnbotanicalart.com this Spring for SFN’s first Flat File exhibition. Artists often begin a work of art then put it aside, storing it in their flat file cabinet, designed to store works on paper, hence “flat” file. I am … Continue reading
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A New Work Full of Hope by Elizabeth Enders
Elizabeth Enders spontaneously captured the simplicity of the Rhododendron’s upright leaf structure pointing to the warmth of the air still lingering late into the Fall season of 2020. She notes the leathery leaf texture with watercolor and includes the bud, a … Continue reading
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Just In: Carol Woodin’s Arrowood Farms Hops
Carol shares this story behind the painting, “I lived next door to a property that turned into a farm and brewery over the course of several years. The first thing to happen was the planting of hops in an open, … Continue reading
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Treasures from the Studio, Holiday Selling Exhibition: Nov. 15-Dec. 31, 2020
The artist studio is a workplace where ideas come to life. These botanical artists use the studio as a place for story telling through the medium of graphite and watercolor on paper and vellum. In Beverly Duncan’s Ashfield Composition, The … Continue reading
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Kelly Leahy Radding’s Ode to Dürer
A Piece of North Woods, 2013, by Kelly Leahy Radding is a highly accomplished contemporary botanical painting depicting a stumbled upon habitat of the Great North Woods region of New Hampshire. Radding shares her experience here, “It was a beautiful … Continue reading
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