The exhibition Green Gold: Plants from the Travels of John Jeffrey has opened in Edinburgh. Venue: Gateway Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Dates: 27th April - 30th June 2019 Time: 10:00 - 17:45 Admission: FREE The exhibition celebrates the life and achievements of plant hunter John Jeffrey. It focuses on his travels in North America in the middle of the nineteenth century. Below you can find out more about:
Paintings of plants collected by John Jeffrey The exhibition includes six especially commissioned watercolour paintings by Nicola Macartney featuring trees and flowering plants collected by Jeffrey in North America. I met Nicola last July when she was exhibiting her suite of six paintings at the RHS Botanical Art Show - where she won a Silver Gilt Medal for her exhibit (see below). Her paintings were created from specimens of plants growing in the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh and Benmore. - quite possibly from the cones and seeds sent back by Jeffrey to Scotland. The exhibition also includes plus materials from RBGE including specimens from the Herbarium, and letters and minutes from their archives. About John Jeffrey John Jeffrey was born in Forneth, Parish of Clunie in east Perthshire. He worked as a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A Scottish group known as the Oregon Association (established 1849) appointed him to travel to North America and find trees and collect their seeds. The intention was that he would continue the efforts of botanist David Douglas (1799–1834) who made three separate trips from Britain to North America. (The Oregon state tree is named after him - its common name being Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii, once Pinus douglasii). Jeffrey's travels involved:
The odds were stacked against John Jeffrey from the start. The distances to be travelled across British Columbia and the Rocky Mountains were extraordinary, while the territory itself was challenging due to the extreme cold, high altitude, and unrest among Native American tribes While exploring he sent the specimens he collected back to Scotland and kept journals of his travels. He discovered 24 new species many of which now grow in the gardens of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh and Benmore. Thanks to his work however the seeds from 119 species were collected and more than 400 plant specimens sent to the Herbarium at RBGE, including seeds and/or specimens of 35 conifer species. Two plant species still bear his name, Dodecatheon jeffreyi and Pinus jeffreyi while a third,Penstemon jeffreyanus, was later renamed by botanists In 1854 he disappeared while travelling east from San Diego across the Colorado Desert. Despite attempts to find him, he was never seen again. Below is a video by Gabriel Hemery illustrating the extent of his travels REFERENCES:
Green Gold (the book)The exhibition is associated with the publication of Green Gold by Gabriel Hemery. Gabriel Hemery is the author of
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I'm always really pleased when I see botanical artists exhibiting their artwork in the annual exhibitions of national art societies which show a range of fine artwork. Botanical artists who enter and get selected for open exhibitions of national art societies raise their profile and can impress art galleries on the lookout for new artists! In addition, one is never really promoting botanical art when merely preaching to those who are already converted! Botanical art needs to shown more widely if others are to see what wonderful work is done in the name of botanical art. The open exhibitions of national art societies are a jolly good place to start to stimulate the consciousness of new buyers.. It's for this reason I'm very pleased to highlight
Marianne Hazlewood has had two of her botanical paintings selected for the 121st Annual Exhibition of the The Society of Scottish Artists. You can see them hanging in the exhibition which opened its doors to the public today - 23rd December 2018 - at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy. (see link to exhibition) Details are below if you plan to visit. Venue: The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL (How to visit) Dates: 23 Dec 2018 – 17 Jan 2019. (CLOSED 25 & 26 DEC) Hours: Mon-Sat: 10am – 5pm, Sun: 12pm – 5pm (1 Jan: 12pm – 5pm) Entry: £2, SSA Members FREE, children and young people FREE Blog posts are emailed to you when you Subscribe to Botanical Art & Artists - News by Email Emails are only sent to you after you have activated the link you will receive. Other Open Exhibitions for Watercolour Artists |
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Marking the 800th anniversary of the Forest Charter, award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees. Since pre-historic times they have provided us with shelter, fuel, medicine, food and even the air we breathe. They have tanned leather, dyed cloth and made everything from cathedrals to clothes-pegs. We have told stories about them, admired their magnificent beauty and woven them into our spiritual lives. Following A Wild Plant Year, which recorded the folklore and cultural history of our native wildflowers, in The Greenwood Trees Christina looks at the history, folklore and virtues of our native trees – and a few well-known introductions too – all illustrated with her exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings.
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