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MIMOSA VEITCHII Acacia sp. original watercolour painting

1974réf. 0385821974. Painting. Illus. by Mary Grierson. Very Good. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. An original watercolour painting of Mimosa veitchii by the distinguished British botanical artist Mary Grierson signed and dated '74 in pencil lower middle the title has been applied with Letraset. Image 510 x 330 mm slate-blue mount. Gilt and green frame 550 x 460mm lightly worn. Painting in very good condition one small mark under the glass does not appear to be on the paper just before the "M" of "Mimosa". Please contact us if you would like to view any of our artwork in person. The shipping cost on this painting within the UK is likely to be in the region of £25. Biography: Mary Anderson Grierson VMH VM GM 1912 - 2012. Mary Grierson needs little introduction doyen of British botanical illustration with an illustrious career. illustrated plants for Kew Gardens and produced numerous illustrations and paintings for Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Remarkably Mary Grierson's notable achievements in botanical art came after the age of 60; she only took up botanical art with any endeavour when in her mid-40s. In 1930 she was awarded the diploma of the Royal Drawing Society in London but it wasn't until 1957 that her interest in plant illustration began to crystallise when she attended a drawing course at Flatford Mill run by John Nash brother of the painter Paul Nash who became her mentor. She attended his classes for 10 years eventually taking over this course which she ran from 1966-1983. In 1960 she was appointed to the post of Botanical Illustrator and Artist to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and illustrated many plates in the famous periodical "Curtis's Botanical Magazine." She was awarded Her first RHS Gold Medal for botanical illustration in 1966 followed by further Gold Medals in 1969 1973 1978 1990 and in 1985 she was awarded the RHS Gold Veitch Memorial Medal. Her work has appeared in numerous books and in 1967 she designed the famous "British Flora" set of postage stamps in collaboration with the Reverend Keble Martin. Her outstanding talent and contribution to botanical illustration was widely recognised and various awards and honours were bestowed upon her: in 1967 she was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1986 received an honorary degree of Master of Philosophy at the University of Reading she served on RHS Picture Committee from 1991-1997 and also in 1997 was awarded the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour. Mary Grierson held a number of dedicated exhibitions at the Spink in London including: Hedgerows of England 20th November - 77h December 1979. Coastal Plants of England early 1980s. An English Florilegium - Botanical Watercolour Drawings of the Tradescant Legacy 4th - 27th November 1987. Plants of the Hawaiian Islands and other Recent Watercolours 22nd May - 1st June 1990. On her death in 2012 Obituaries were published in numerous newspapers and periodicals. . unknown

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DENNIS F. HARLE - 3 STUDIES OF FUNGI Original Watercolour and Pencil SWLA

réf. 038405United Kingdom Painting. Illus. by Dennis F. Harle. Near Fine. Framed. Signed by THE ARTIST. Original. 500mm x 400mm. Three original watercolour and pencil studies of fungi uniformly mounted and framed one signed. Harle was renowned for signing his work in various ways and often not at all. The images; Hebeloma Radicosum Lycogala Epidendron Withington Glos. 1989 is 260mm x 165mm Portrait; Geastrum Triplex Betteshanger Kent 1968 275mm x 185mm signedPortrait and finally Agaricus Aligustus St. Radigunds Woods1982 285mm x 210mm paper a little cockled Portrait. All three are framed in solid oak and to the same dimension of 500mm x 400mm. The mounts are acid free with three ruled lines fine no marking. The illustration colours remain vibrant no toning or spotting. All three were exhibited at The Wildlife Art Gallery Lavenham and again in 2003 at Nature in Art Twigworth at the celebrating the 40th year since the inaugural exhibition of the SWLA. Dennis F. Harle 1920-2001 Harle had a strong interest in wildlife subjects born and lived in Sandwich Kent. He studied at Ramsgate and Canterbury Schools of Art. As an ornithologist he was a founder member of Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust SBBOT and was responsible for establishing a nature reserve at Gazen Salts. He contributed hundreds of b/w vignettes of birds to various British regional bird reports; his illustration of a Kentish Plover graced the front cover of the Kent Bird Report in the 1950's and 1960's but his principal contribution in this field was the Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Report which from 1960s through to 2000 featured hundreds of his highly accomplished drawings of birds He is best known as a founder-member of The Society of Wildlife Artists SWLA along-side Talbot Kelly Eric Ennion Robert Gillmor Peter Scott and many more. The SWLA inaugural Exhibition held 13th - 27th August 1964 at the Galleries of the Federation of British Artists Pall Mall featured Harles works. In fact the first listed work in the catalogue is Harle's "Whitefronts Crossing the Dunes" and goes on to feature a further three paintings. Then these three were exhibited at Nature in Art in 2003 celebrating the 40th year since the inaugural exhibition of the SWLA. He contributed a coloured frontispiece and line drawings for The Birds of Kent: a review of their status and distribution. . unknown

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