It's the Art Trail this weekend and here I am getting ready to take my stuff over later today.
It's always nerve racking when you're about to present yourself and your work to the world at large. Suddenly you doubt yourself, but I'm sure it will be ok!
Creative Social (a group that aims to get Creatives together socially to support each other) described my work "Anita Gwynn will be showcasing her delicate and evocative botanical monotypes at 5 Higher School St - a must see for nature lovers". So that was lovely.
The Art's Trail catalogue says "Anita started drawing flowers after finding a collection of pressed flowers at her childhood home. Using this collection, made by her mother, she made a series of monotypes and from then on started drawing wildflowers".
My new work has changed a bit, in that I have now included my allotment and related subjects, so not quite just wildflowers this time, although one of my bigger pieces is Mullein, (Verbascum thapsus) which was growing magnificiently in Nog Lane a couple of years ago. It can grow really tall and has lovely velvety and soft leaves. If the mullein moth caterpillar finds it, it decimates in quick time!! I love the tall spires of yellow flowers and the gorgeous soft sage green leaves.
It has many other names such as Beggar's blanket, Herb blanket, Candleflower, Cuddy's Lungs, Feltwort.... The lung reference is because it is meant to be very beneficial to people who have given up smoking and to those who suffer from asthma. It is also good for UTIs, ear-ache, anti-inflamatory, an all round good plant, I'd say!
And here she is, in all her glory. I have a couple of little seedlings in my garden, from this very plant. I think they take a year or two to get going, so hopefully I will have some in my garden next year.
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