The Spring Garden Card

The Spring Garden - (sealed in bio-film with envelope inside)

5” x 7” (12.7cm x 18cm)

Hahnemühle High White Matt FSC® certified - traceable and responsibly sourced
Kraft Envelope - recycled
Bio-based film sleeve - NATIVIA® - Compostable, Biodegradable, Recyclable

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1 Card £3.50 plus 85p P&P

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Originally derived from a Botanical Watercolour, the colours are heightened on the Tote Bag and how can you not smile with the rainbow of botanical colours that Spring always gives us?!! This bag would be suitable at any time of the year and would be a lovely present for someone you know who has a big passion for flowers.

This project was an absolute joy. I am a big fan of blue flowers, and I hope you can see the very subtle variations from the Hyacinth, with some edges almost turquoise and others violet, to the pretty chalk-blue Periwinkle. Yellow is often a colour that artists avoid in the botanical world, but one thing I have not done over the last few years is shy away from colour and you will see many hues of yellow running throughout. I also concentrated on the leaves - I tried to find examples of flowers that differed in colour, texture and had diverse leaves also. I use Winsor and Newton Professional Watercolours, as the hues and texture of the paint really suit my style of painting.

Do you also see an Easter egg shape that the flowers form? This was not intentional but it just came to be from the composition, which is a complex diagonal format.

Can you believe there are eight different varieties of flowers in this mixed floral botanical work?

They are (with Latin names included):

Vinca minor Lesser Periwinkle
Crocus vernus Dutch Crocus
Tulipa 'Ice Stick' Variegated tulip by Sarah Raven
Hyacinthus orientalis Common Hyacinth
Ficaria verna Lesser Celandine
Narcissus 'Golden Dawn' Daffodil
Narcissus pseudonarcissus Wild Daffodil
Chionodoxa foerbesii 'Pink Giant' Glory-of-the-Snow

Delivery is via Royal Mail Letter/ Large Letter. Please allow 2-4 days for delivery. I will aim to despatch at the earliest opportunity.