NEW Online Botanical Art Exhibition by Jonathan Cooper

The Spring Exhibition at the Jonathan Cooper Gallery in Chelsea is celebrating botanical art with an ONLINE Exhibition - due to the constraints imposed by the lockdown.

• ​You can see examples of the work of gallery artists in the exhibition below and much more on the exhibition website.
• Please note, some have already been sold or reserved.
• Click twice on a website image to get a large view.
• ​The botanical artists included in the exhibition are listed below - with one of their images in the exhibition.
• If you're interested in buying just click the enquire link on the page for each artwork and complete the form.

Fiona Strickland (six works) - Fiona is a world renowned botanical artist and tutor who lives in Scotland. b.1956 in Edinburgh , she received a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art. Her watercolour paintings are complex and very detailed and demonstrate her amazing control over multiple layers of transparent watercolour to create her intense colour and beautifully rendered tone for the smallest details. She has exhibited internationally and has won several awards including a Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal (2008) and The Hort's "Best in Show" Award at 18th Annual International in New York.  Her botanical artwork is much in demand and is included in premier collections around the world - including the RHS Lindley Library, the Shirley Sherwood Collection and the Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation and numerous private collections in Europe, USA and Australia.  Jonathan Cooper represents her in the UK and the works in this show feature single blooms of spring flowers - tulips, poppies and hippeastrum.

Colour is Fiona Strickland’s signature approach to botanical watercolour. Her attention to detail and technical virtuosity in the use of transparent washes - used to build her vibrant paintings - highlights her skill in handling colour. Strickland's emotive response to the visual elements of colour, tone, texture and movement in the plant world is captured in her very personal approach to botanical painting.

Note also that Fiona Strickland's second solo exhibition "Tulipa" at Jonathan Cooper - which was due to be held this May - will now be held between 4th - 26th September 2020. It will feature 18 paintings in watercolour on vellum. I'll be writing more about this in due course.

Parrot Tulip (Tulipa Rococo) by Fiona Strickland - (Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico HP 640gsm) 27 x 21ins (68.6 x 53.3cm) (artwork size) £9,000

Rosie Sanders (six works) - Rosie lives and works in Devon and is well known for creating  large to very large paintings of intense colour in watercolour on a variety of paper (Arches, Saunders Waterford and Richard de Bas). In London, her works is available from Jonathan Cooper's Park Walk Gallery and the works in the exhibition are priced between £3,800 and £34,000. She is a self-taught artist who started as a freelance botanical artist in 1974. Since then she has won five RHS gold medals and researched, written and illustrated a number of books including one on Roses and another on The English Apple. She exhibited with the Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation in 1992 and her work was in the very first exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew (and a number of others since). Her work is included in numerous collections and she has been commissioned to produce paintings for both the Queen and the Queen Mother. 

Now That April's Here by Rosie Sanders (Watercolour on Saunders Waterford 300gsm paper) 54.25 x 70ins (138 x 178cm) (artwork size) £34,000

Beverley Allen (six works) - was born in Sydney in 1945 and is now one of the leading botanical artists in Australia. has exhibited annually at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney ‘Botanica’ Exhibition since 1999 and internationally including New York, Washington, Chicago, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Kyoto and London - winning prestigious awards. Her paintings are included in the Highgrove Florilegium and in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens in both Sydney and Kew Gardens, the RHS Lindley Library,  the Hunt Institute in Pittsburgh. Her paintings in the exhibition are in watercolour on Arches paper, mostly at 50 x 40cm (£3,800 - £8,500)

White Bat Flower (Tacca integrifolia) by Beverley Allen (Watercolour) 24.41 x 22.44ins (62cm x 57cm) (artwork size) £8,500

Kate Nessler (1 work) - is an American botanical artist (b.1950) who lives and works in Arkansas, USA. Her painting of Phalaenopsis Equestris is in watercolour on paper (£3,500). This is one of her more conventional botanical portrait of an orchid whereas her other works in vellum sold by the gallery are more idiosyncratic. She has won a number of notable awards and her botanical artworks are included in many prestigious collections.

Phalaenopsis Equestris (1995) by Kate Nessler (Watercolour on paper) 12.5 x 13.25ins (31.8 x 33.7cm) £3,500

Jane Wormell (4 works) - has been painting and exhibiting her flower paintings for more than thirty years. She began with botanical studies in watercolour before moving into oils and now paints groups of plants - in hedgerows or dense herbaceous borders - in oil on linen. One is sold and one is reserved and the remainder are priced between £1,400 - £3,800.

Born in 1960, she lives and works in North London. She studied at Hornsey College of Art and has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions at commercial galleries and public institutions including; The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London; The Barbican Centre, London and The University of York.

Hellebores by Jane Wormell (SOLD)

This is

• the Gallery's Distance Selling Cancellation Policy - for artworks purchased from an online exhibition and
• this page provides more details of how to get in touch with the gallery.

If we ever get out of lockdown(!) you can find Jonathan Cooper's Park Walk Gallery at 20 Park Walk, London, SW10 0AQ - everybody is very nice and very helpful!