TBA

Florilegium member Elizabeth-Jane Grose is showing a different strand of her art practice as part of the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. The work she is exhibit, ‘Lundy Hole’ is one of a new series of works that comes out of the process of walking the Cornish section of the South West Coast Path; of owning and raising a small flock of native and rare breed sheep; and of growing plants.

Our Vice Chair Laura Silburn is delighted to have been selected for the Oak Springs Garden Foundation botanical art residency.  

Due to other commitments Laura is not able to participate in 2024 but the Foundation have kindly allowed a deferral to 2025. 

EPFS fellow Dominica Williamson has continued to gain funding with artist Hilary Jean Gibson to run an Art club as part of the Charity Friends of the Towans.Dominica focuses on Botanical Illustration for families through day long workshops. She also promotes EPFS at these events and shares its archive through imagery.

We were very lucky to have one of our assessors – Chris Bisson – giving the presentation at our AGM in 2023. Chris assesses the botanical accuracy of paintings being submitted into the archive, and he came to talk about herbaria as this is something we are developing in the Flori at the moment, so that in future there is an herbarium specimen of almost every plant painted for the archive. Listening to Chris and writing this article was both an interesting and educational exercise for me. I needed to research the people he referred to and looked at the links he gave for online websites and documents; some are updated (all the links are below), and it was fascinating to find out more about the history of herbaria and who was involved. He gave us so much useful information and I have tried to include as much as I can. I also added a new book to my collection. Now I am preparing my first specimens for the Flori herbarium and feel a lot more confident about doing it right.