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The RHS Lindley Library remains closed for the time being - but has started having exhibitions again! The exhibitions are online and include:
Enduring Beauty: Orchid Portraits of the RHS  Enduring Beauty: Orchid Portraits of the RHS The RHS has employed an official artist to paint beautiful life-size portraits of orchids for over 120 years. This exhibition opened in the Library just before lockdown started. It was going to provide a spectacular display of recent RHS orchid portraits - including the latest portraits by current RHS Orchid Artist, Deborah Lambkin. Deborah is the ninth official RHS orchid painter since the first postholder was appointed in 1897 The digital exhibition:
READ MORE about Deborah Lambkin in my blog posts:  Healing Garden: A History of Medicinal Plants  Healing Garden: A History of Medicinal Plants This exhibition reviews:
You can also READ MORE about Herbals on this website Keep up to date with Botanical Art Exhibitions Blog posts are emailed to you when you Subscribe to Botanical Art & Artists - News by Email Worth a Thousand Words Worth a Thousand Words - for RHS members ONLY This digital exhibition is the equivalent of the exhibition held in the Lindley Library during the RHS Botanical Art Show in 2018.
"Worth a Thousand Words" is about the RHS Gold Medal winning paintings in the botanical art collection.You can see:
In this instance, the digital exhibition is for RHS Members only - or rather those who have got an online RHS account (like me!) However everybody can read more about that exhibition - and see some of the images - in my blog post Worth a Thousand Words - exhibition at the RHS. However you can see much larger images of the work in the online exhibition. So if you're an RHS member and have not got your online account sorted yet, now's the time to do it!
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Brazilian botanical illustrator and teacher Rosane Quintella passed away on Friday 11th September age 61.  Rosane Quintella in 2018 at the Worldwide Exhibition of Botanical Art in Brazil. Rosanne was born on 25th February 1959 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her studies included:
One of her works completed in 2005 forms part of the Shirley Sherwood Collection.  Rosane Quintella front second from left - with her fellow Margaret Mee Scholars in in Curitiba, Brazil: Back row: Maria Alice Rezende, Alessandro Cândido, Gustavo Marigo, Marcos A. Silva-Ferraz, and Paulo Ormindo. Front Row: Carol de Bassi, Rosane Quintella, Diana Carneiro and Fatima Zagonel When she returned to Brazil she became a permanent member of the teaching staff at Centro de Ilustração Botânica do Paraná (CIBD) and taught botanical illustration there for the next 14 years - and was apparently much loved by her students and peers. She also continued to complete her own scientific botanical illustration works in ink and watercolour and was affiliated to UNIC - National Union of Scientific Illustrators. Rosanne passed away on Friday 11th September 2020. There are tributes to her on:
The Paraná Botanical Illustration Center is in mourning. Note: Photographs of Rosanne Quintella:
Fiona Strickland: Tulipa Exhibition opened last week at the Jonathan Cooper Gallery in Park Walk, Chelsea. Below you can find my review and images of the exhibition and what Fiona told me about her painting when we met up for lunch on Thursday last week. Plus more about Fiona and the presentation of the paintings at the end. This is Fiona Strickland's second - and much awaited - solo exhibition after The Vital Moment in 2016. So much so that Botanical art collectors and lovers of heritage tulips had bought a number of her paintings before Tulipa opened! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND botanical artists pay a visit. It's a rare exhibition of botanical artwork of a very high quality. I'm very sure that all those who work in vellum and all those who aspire to do must surely want to visit - because Fiona sets a benchmark which has been rarely equalled or exceeded. Besides - I also know a number of botanical artists, like me, are also botanical art collectors! Do not forget your magnifier to see if you can spot her brush strokes!  You have until 26 September to visit the Exhibition (and must book a visiting time in advance due to social distancing requirements) If you can't get to Chelsea you can either:
 I went to see Tulipa on Thursday but met up with Fiona Strickland and her husband Robert McNeill for lunch in Chelsea beforehand. We had a wonderful catch-up since our last "chinwag" at the RHS Botanical Art Show in 2019 and I asked her about the exhibition.  Fiona Strickland with Robert McNeill and a Group of English Florists Tulips This exhibition of stunning tulips should have been held in prime Tulip season back in Spring. However it was not to be. Like so many others, this exhibition was opening late - having, of course, been postponed due to the Pandemic. It has been more than two years in the making - tulips only bloom in the spring! The timescale was in part determined by Fiona's decision to paint some of the English Florists' tulips which are only available from the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society - who have been showing them since 1836! This is the sole surviving Tulip Society in the UK - which grows heritage tulips (including English Florists' Tulip which are characterised by the flamed and feathered markings caused by Tulip Breaking Virus - which made them highly valued during Tulipomania). They also supplied Rory McEwen with tulips for his paintings. Indeed two of the tulip paintings in the show are of Tulipa ‘Rory McEwen’, a Bybloemen Flame tulip that was named in McEwen’s honour. One on Kelmscott Vellum and one on Rory McEwen Kelmscott bequeathed to her by the Hunt Institute where his vellum supplies now reside. Like Rory McEwen before her, having learned of its work Strickland became a member, and was delighted to be gifted prize- winning tulips from its annual show to depict in her work. Carefully transporting them home in the brown beer bottles in which they are exhibited, after painting these perfect specimens Strickland could not bear to part with them, and has preserved their dried forms in her studio. Catalogue There are eighteen watercolour paintings of tulips in this solo show - predominantly English Florists' Tulips - of which thirteen have now sold.
The 23rd Annual International of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) opens today at Wave Hill - at 675 West 252nd Street, Bronx, NY. The exhibition comprises two-dimensional, original, botanical art and runs until 6th December 2020. (See end for notes about social distancing / booking etc).
ASBA have set up a Virtual Exhibition Online - on their website - click each picture to see a larger image. The 46 artworks in the exhibition were selected from a field of 178 entries - and include
The exhibition is a collaboration between ASBA and Wave Hill and some of the artwork represents plant specimens grown at Wave Hill. The exhibition was organized by Carol Woodin, Director of Exhibitions at the American Society of Botanical Artists; Jennifer McGregor, Senior Director of Arts, Education and Programs at Wave Hill; and Eileen Jeng Lynch, Wave Hill’s Curator of Visual Arts. An Exhibition Catalogue is available for purchase from both Wave Hill and ASBA:
Adding to my challenge, I chose to work on a thin hard paper – Schoellershammer G4. This is similar to Bristol board; coated, very smooth. It takes ink well and hates water. It is almost like working on vellum. This paper will not put up with a single mistake. You can't scrape it or wash off. A very dry brush with tiny strokes is the only solution. 
Coelogyne lawrenceana Watercolor on paper, 9 x 12 ½ inches ©2020 Lizzie Sanders
ASBA 23rd Annual International: Awards
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