Susan Frei Nathan - Fine Works on Paper, LLC

Please make arrangements with Susan Frei Nathan at susan@sfnbotanicalart.com to meet for a person tour before it ends.

Carol Woodin
Volunteer Squash
watercolor on vellum attached with linen string
11 x 27.5, $5,800

Beverly Duncan
The Seasons #1, 2016
Watercolor on paper

Susan Frei Nathan and ILevel invite you to an Open House, Saturday, December 3 for 12-5pm at ILevel Studio, 37 East 7th Street.

Please stop by for hot cider and donuts while enjoying contemporary botanical art. Susan Frei Nathan will be on-site all afternoon and looks forward to discussing the art.

Connie Scanlon’s botanical art portraits are like magnets to the eye.  She has enormous talent and great patience with the subjects she paints, as seen in her Norway Maple samara. As Scanlon sees it,  ”the delicate strength of the veining, ridges and shadows of this small yet magnificent element of the maple tree”, is mindfully extracted through her dry brush watercolor technique.  Here she is pointing to subjects in nature often overlooked.  Sourced plant-life like her recently painted Riverbank Grapes,  capture its trailing vine by magnifying it x 3 , showing its range of coloration (common throughout her works) with elegance and abundant grace.  This viewing satisfaction lingers on the mind like all great compositions, shifting our attention to often stepped on or brushed by specimens in nature.  Scanlon masterfully pulls us in to revel in their non-traditional beauty.

“Taking Leave”
(Norway Maple samara), 2014
Watercolor on Kelmscott
vellum, 11 x 6. 6 inches

“Riverbank Grapes”, 2015
Watercolor on Kelmscott vellum, 13 x 7 inches

As you peruse the Spring-Summer online exhibition, I hope you enjoy the moments when the blooms beckon you. Nature’s pure glory is within these moments where we connect with its beauty, frailty, vulnerability and grace. Nature takes it’s time to present itself, the artists here have captured the moment where nature fully exposes itself for all to see. We turn inward at that moment with pure wonder about earth’s manifestations. We build botanical art collections around these moments which are personal and surround the collector with a lasting memory.

Karen Kluglein
Hollyhock, 2009
watercolor on vellum
23 x 19 inches

Beverly Duncan
Ashfield Composition-Early Summer
(Rosa Eglanteria, Barred Rock Egg & Feather), 2002
7 x 7 inches
$700

Presented are a few of Beverly Duncan’s jewel-like paintings especially for Mother’s Day. These pieces were selected for this event only. We hope you consider adding a work to her interior garden for this occasion.

Beverly Duncan
Two Tulips, 2009
watercolor on vellum
7 x 14 inches
$900

Please visit our website to view our new exhibition featuring watercolors on paper and vellum by many of the artists we represent. Now that spring has arrived in the Northeast we are excited to embrace these long-awaited seasons with a beautiful selection of botanicals evoking feelings of romance (Esther Klahne’s rose) and the farmer’s markets with Carol Woodin’s Chihulomato. Enjoy our interior garden of paintings.

Carol Woodin
Chihulomato
watercolor on vellum

Esther Klahne
Tea Rose
watercolor on vellum

Our upcoming show captures nature in its most exciting months of the year. Artists soak their paper and vellum with vibrant colors and spectacular compositions celebrating our favorite seasons. Please visit us from April 25-August 25 as we showcase these works; the artists mindful choices of subjects and quality of drawing satiate us with everlasting appreciation. We hope you consider building an interior garden of botanical art, walls full of treasured plants that evoke meaning and beauty year round.

Thanks to Denise Walser-Kolar’s image below, a magical voyage of fluttering into Spring.  See you soon!

Hofnagel-Inspired #4, 2014
watercolor and gouache on vellum
6 x 4 inches

We welcome you to our first online exhibition showing master botanical artists who captured the Fall-Winter seasons, showing nature’s strengths and vulnerability. These works share the great beauty of nature through dormancy.

Lara Call Gastinger’s “End of Fall Sunflower”

The American Society of Botanical Artists honored Denise Walser-Kolar with the Diane Bouchier Artist Award for Excellence in Botanical Art at their October 2015 Meeting & Conference in Miami, FL. Lara Call Gastinger received an honorable mention for her “Unfurling Ferns” in the Small Works exhibition at the Conference. BRAVO! Please visit sfnbotanicalart.com to view botanical paintings by these two highly accomplished master botanical painters.