Rhododendron 'Horizon Monarch'
The Shirley Sherwood Collection

Watercolour on Fabrianno Artistico
51 x 65 cms (framed)
Jonathan Cooper Gallery London
 

......"The stem and flat, dark green leaves lend an unusual diagonal composition to this detailed portrait of a bud..........This large scale watercolour reveals the vivid use of colour and meticulous detail characteristic of the Sottish botanical artist..."  ​

PLANT. Exploring the Botanical World, Phaidon 

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"..... the challenge was to communicate this surface to the viewer whilst conveying the form convincingly, taking account of the changing underlying colour of the bud scales and the effect of the light on the very fine hairs..."

 

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