#botanical art
Expression of Machinery, 12"x12", oil on wood, SOLD
Number ten in my series on the nature of numbers represents the culmination of all numbers before it in which a work reaches its true completion and full potential then returns back to the monad, or number one, to start the cycle anew.
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Rainbow Bridge, 12″x12″, oil on wood, Collection of the Artist
Number 7. The Heptad symbolizes the completion of a divine journey. The title “Rainbow Bridge” refers to the Buddhist term for the path traveled from the lower path the the higher path through the seven chakras. The imagery of the painting is mainly drawn from The Pythagorean concept of the Music of Seven Spheres, the musical vibration of the seven planets in ancient alchemy.
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Sky Burial, oil on wood, 12″x12″, SOLD
Number five. The Pentad, or “Quintessence”, encompasses the four elements of matter, infusing the force of life and representing nature’s fecundity. The pentagram’s self replicating growth is reflected in the Fibonacci sequence.
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Made myself a new icon, along with some new tier icons for my Patreon!
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It’s freezing here in little old England, so I thought I’d bring a little sunshine into the studio xx
Paint what makes you happy, paint the Rainbow. x
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Garden Tea Party!
A mixed media painting/collage in watercolours, acrylic inks & paint pens with die cut teapot & teacup.
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In honor of International Women’s Day, today we’re featuring the botanical art of Sarah Ann Drake (1803-1857), a prolific British botanical illustrator. She was trained to create drawings from living plants by botanist and leading member of the Royal Horticultural Society John Lindley, and went on to illustrate a number of books by Lindley and others. This print of orchids is from Lindley’s “Sertum Orchidaceum.” In acknowledgement of her contribution to his work, Lindley named the genus Drakea for her. More here: https://www.georgeglazer.com/prints/nathist/botanical/drakeinv/drakeinv.html
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botober day 28: “botanical plate tectonics”
Botanicals (2021)
It’s autumn! Studies of conkers (horse chestnut tree - Aesculus hippocastanum) done from life using gouache.
The name ‘horse chestnut’ is misleading as conkers are poisonous and are not even in the same family of plants as edible chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are actually in the same family as trees such as maples, lychees and rambutans!
Datura stramonium, otherwise known as jimsonweed, thorn apple, devil’s snare, or devil’s trumpet, is a flowering plant in the deadly nightshade family. Flowering primarily during the summer, the delicate, fragrant flowers open at night to be fed on by nocturnal moths.
While beautiful, every part of the plant contains potentially fatal levels of alkaloid toxins classified as deliriants, the ingestion of which can cause uncomfortable psychoactive effects, along with hallucination, bizarre behavior, hyperthermia, and tachycardia. Risk of fatal overdose is high among the uninformed.
Proud to finally post this, after 18 hours of agonizing over it! Jimsonweed is my favorite flower, it grew around the farm where I grew up, and I used to love going out in the evening at twilight to smell the flowers as they opened up. It’s true, their scent is sweet, and the flowers feel very delicate. The horses and cattle wouldn’t touch them.
I felt they represented Gríma and his false niceties very well!
