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Author Archives: susan
Article on the 19th-century Language of Flowers in the Bulletin of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Although Flora’s Lexicon, an exhibition on the “19th-century Language of Flowers phenomenon” is long over, it’s worth requesting a copy of the Hunt’s Bulletin,Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring 2011 which includes a well-researched essay on the subject by Catherine Hammond, Assistant … Continue reading
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Vignettes/Home Informs Art the Best
Summer, July 2011, Arkansas, USA. Visiting with Kate Nessler was a magical experience, the Ozark Mountains are exquisite. Her most recent series of Edge paintings is derived from her organic planting style and the cut of her land. Most … Continue reading
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Beauty
Lately I’ve admired the work of Patricia Luppino, a botanical artist from New York. Her pencil and watercolor pieces capture nature at its most beautiful and vulnerable. She recently asked me for a portfolio critique where we moved into a … Continue reading
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April 2011 Lecture and Portfolio Reviews in Southern California
Please visit the blog of the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California for a review of the lecture I gave on “Is My Work Salable” and Collecting to the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California in April 2011. They have posted … Continue reading
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Studio Visits
Visiting artists studios provides me with the opportunity to see the mind of the artist at work. Viewing botanical art specimens composed or scattered on the artists tables pulls me into their world of aesthetic choices. Touring their carefully planted … Continue reading
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Botanical Prints
Recently I visited the studio of Monika de Vries Gohlke, a German born botanical artist who has applied the art of printmaking to botanical portraiture. Monika works from real life specimens while engraving her copper plates from her home garden … Continue reading
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Financial Times-FT.COM Article
Exciting mention of Lizzie Sanders and Kate Nessler’s work as part of Prince Charles’s Highgrove Florilegium in “The Prince’s Prints” by Tim Richardson, published on May 21, 2011.
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Kate Nessler’s Edges
Welcome to my first blog post! Here you will find what excites me about botanical painting from original works to museum exhibitions and reference books on the subject. Enjoy! Kate Nessler has a fantastic series of new works called Edges. … Continue reading
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