“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding“ Gian Carlo Menotti After all the excitement of my trip to Frankfurt, I was really looking forward to getting back into my studio once more and painting!! The Natural Law Exhibition is
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop” Ovid After my flurry of painting last week, I needed to a few days to unwind, and there’s really no better place to relax and contemplate life, than under the gently swaying fronds of a
“Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.”Paul GauguinI am addicted to colour. Yes, I am admitting it. Colour thrills me. There once was a time when a small pocket palette of twelve colours was enough to satisfy the colour junkie in me,
Blechnum gibbum studies © Shevaun Doherty“Love the process and the painting will happen”A friend once remarked that being a botanical artist is as much about loving the artistic process as it is about the painting. It’s true. I get a huge amount of pleasure out of creating study
Ferdinand Bauer's Colour Chart, Royal Botanic Gardens, Madrid“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,To travel is to live.” Hans Christian AndersonI have just returned from a week of light, colour, laughter, friendship and fabulous
Plan like a turtle; paint like a rabbit. Edgar A. WhitneySometimes starting a painting can be so daunting because there are so many aspects to think about. So I’ve become a bit of a plodder. Rather than dive in, I’ll take the slow approach and
“Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.”Winston ChurchillI was completely taken by surprise when a beautifully wrapped parcel arrived last week
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ~Sylvia PlathIt’s been yet another messy week of interruptions, but finally the kids are back in school, and hopefully, life will once more settle back into a
To be a botanical artist, you need a certain amount of obsessiveness.Some botanical artists are obsessed with colour, making endless colour charts and memorising pigment numbers and characteristics. Others are passionate about certain plants or habitats, tenderly creating their own leafy paradises, or travelling to
Every artist hits a creative slump once in a while. You want to paint but you don’t know what to paint, or even where to start. When you do finally put brush to paper, it’s a disaster. The drawing is wrong, the colours are muddy ,
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