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Drawing with Paint: The Botanical Paintings of Rebecca John

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Rebecca John was born into a family of painters, the most famous among them being her grandfather, Augustus John, and her great-aunt, Gwen John. And the last thing she wanted was to become a painter herself. So how did this happen? In Drawing with Paint she traces the path that led to her exquisite botanical watercolors. She takes us through her childhood—the village in the Cotswolds "where I first became intensely aware of nature in its wild state," her grandfather’s home at Fryern Court in Wiltshire and her parents’ London house, both of them forever associated in her mind with "growing things," the Fine Jewellery course where "I learned to draw—and to concentrate on things close up," her days as a picture researcher, her growing delight in botanical paintings, and more. She was in her thirties when she began to "make tentative pencil studies of flowering plants." In the early 1990s she enrolled for the new Botanical Painting course at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Soon after, she moved to her mother’s cottage in Wales. And from then on paintings gradually took over. Drawing with Paint is illustrated with 80 of Rebecca John's exquisite botanical watercolors.

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Pimpernel Press

Release: September 17, 2020

ISBN: 1910258318

ISBN 13: 9781910258316

Drawing with Paint: The Botanical Paintings of Rebecca John

5/5 ( ratings)

Rebecca John was born into a family of painters, the most famous among them being her grandfather, Augustus John, and her great-aunt, Gwen John. And the last thing she wanted was to become a painter herself. So how did this happen? In Drawing with Paint she traces the path that led to her exquisite botanical watercolors. She takes us through her childhood—the village in the Cotswolds "where I first became intensely aware of nature in its wild state," her grandfather’s home at Fryern Court in Wiltshire and her parents’ London house, both of them forever associated in her mind with "growing things," the Fine Jewellery course where "I learned to draw—and to concentrate on things close up," her days as a picture researcher, her growing delight in botanical paintings, and more. She was in her thirties when she began to "make tentative pencil studies of flowering plants." In the early 1990s she enrolled for the new Botanical Painting course at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Soon after, she moved to her mother’s cottage in Wales. And from then on paintings gradually took over. Drawing with Paint is illustrated with 80 of Rebecca John's exquisite botanical watercolors.

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Pimpernel Press

Release: September 17, 2020

ISBN: 1910258318

ISBN 13: 9781910258316

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