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Jade Vine With Bat
ORIGINAL: Code O0701 SOLD - Private Sale
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code CP0701:
Canvas Print approximately 17" x 45"
£95 + £10 postage & packing.
Code BCP0701:
Box Canvas Print 15" x 36" (hand-made frame)
£110 + £20 postage & packing.
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Drawn on location, courtesy of Cambridge Botanic Gardens in March 2006. I spent two days drawing field notes and taking photographs and mixing the correct colours for application in the final painting. I tried to find out more about this exotic plant, which grows in the tropical jungles, but could not find out much—only that it is fertilised by flower bats. Hence the furry friend in the tops.
Poem: Have you ever seen, such a lovely shade of green
A jade vine in all its glory, Flower bat in upper storey
Not from tropical forest, you'll pardon
But from Cambridge's Botanic Garden!
ORIGINAL LIFESIZE OIL PAINTING ON BOX CANVAS (only part of the painting is shown here - please click on the image to get the full picture!). Glazed and housed in a handmade light beechwood frame, with 1" acid-free cream mount backdrop.
Completed SEPTEMBER 2006.
Framed size approximately 14" wide x 50" high.
View framed original
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Nature's Gems: February
ORIGINAL: Code ONS02 SOLD - Private Sale
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code PNS02:
A3 Print on Fine Art Paper
£30 + £5 postage & packing.
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I was playing golf at Bourn Golf Club and saw a goldcrest. So with camera and sketch pad in hand I ventured next day back to the spot where I had seen it. The bird let me get very close; as did the little wren who lives in and around my little wild garden.
Poem:
Winter’s grip begins to fail. Sprouts of cuckoo pint, so pale.
Silver shines from willow branch. A wren flits searching for her lunch,
amid the violets’ timid bud, as goldcrest watches from above.
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR.
Completed February 2004.
Framed size 19" x 15". |
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Nature's Gems: July
ORIGINAL: Code ONS07 SOLD - Exhibition
PRINTS AVAILABLE: Code PNS07: A3 Print on Fine Art Paper £30 + £5 postage & packing.
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The idea for this picture came from a holiday in Spain, as I saw my first beautiful swallowtail butterfly there. I looked up the English version on returning home only to find that it is only found in a few places in Britain. Trips to the Norfolk Broads and Wicken Fen revealed the milk parsley on which it feeds, but no butterfly. A deceased specimen as resource was all I could lay my hands on, but the beauty in life has lingered after death.
Poem:
In boggy fen, in sweet July, a swallowtail may catch your eye.
But take away the fragile flora, milk parsley and its umbelled aura;
soon the butterfly will die, extinction then we know is nigh.
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR: SOLD, Holt Picturecraft Gallery, September 2009 (Picturecraft Gallery). |
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Nature's Gems: June
ORIGINAL: Code ONS06
PURCHASE ORIGINAL FROM GALLERY**
PRINTS AVAILABLE: A3 Print on Fine Art Paper £30 + £5 postage & packing.
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The foxglove, poppy and spearwort all grow in my little wild garden and the burnet moth sometimes shows amongst the flower heads. Poppies come in all sizes and reddish hues and are fascinating to watch as their silken petals ripple in the breeze.
Poems:
Pompous poppies grab the scene, voluptuous red and silver green.
But greater spearwort dazzles too, while foxglove, sombre violet hue,
hides behind the sunny sight. See burnet moth, its wings so bright.
ORIGINAL WATER COLOUR:
Completed October 2004
**This work is currently showing at the Darryl Nantais Gallery, Linton, Nr Cambridge. If you wish to view or purchase it, please contact Karl Backhurst on 01223 891289, or by email: The Darryl Nantais Gallery Ltd |
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