Archives for posts with tag: plant collage

Holiday Shows are Here!!

November 12, 2014 //

The holiday art and craft show season is upon us and I am getting ready for four of them. On December 7 and 8 I’ll be at Briggs Nursery in North Attleboro Massachusetts. If you haven’t been to this fabulous venue you should make a day of it. It’s that good!

After that, on Sunday, December 14, I’ll be at the indoor Providence Flea whose founders have just been recognized among he best entrepeneurs of the year!
Meanwhile, I’m working on pieces for two season-long shows in Rhode Island. One is at Chapel View, Rhode Islands’s newest high-end gallery. The Chapel View complex is adjacent to Garden City in Cranston.
The second, Peckham’s Greenhouse Local Handmade Holiday Show, begins November 18 and runs through Christmas at Peckhams’s Greenhouse in Little Cranston, Rhode Island. features the work of some 20 Rhode Island and New England artists and artisans.

Once the season is over, I’ll be free turn my attention to new work for May. Meanwhile, hope to keep in touch through this blog and through my Etsy shop. Happy Holidays everyone!!

Tags botanical art, botanical collage, collage, connecticut artist, framed art, garden gifts, garden. gardening, lois lawrence, mixed-media, my stonington garden, plant collage, stonington artist

Categories acrylic painting, art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical painting, collage, Garden art

A Little Patchwork with Bald Cedar, Papyrus, Japanese Maple and One Sweet Little Weed

August 14, 2014 //

This 12″ x 6″ resin-coated piece features several plants I’ve used before and one I haven’t — bald cedar. The long cedar leaf spans all three of the rectangles in the painting and ties the whole thing together, I think. Compositionally, it serves almost the same purpose as the garden asparagus I’ve used in some of my works on paper, but is sturdier and easier to deal with at the stage of adhering the plant to the support. Once the resin is poured, any leaf or part of a leaf that is not firmly attached to the wood panel tends to float to and through the surface–a problem that no amount of poking with a toothpick is likely to fix — so proper attachment is critically important.

When using white backgrounds, I don’t always leave the cradle sides white as well, but it works well in this case.

Tags botanical art, botanical collage, connecticut artist, garden art, lois lawrence, mixed-media, plant collage, stonington garden

Categories acrylic painting, art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical painting, collage, Garden art, mixed media, multi media, pressed botanicals, pressed flowers

First New Work of the New Year – Feathergrass on Water Drops

January 1, 2014 //

While I plan to continue designing lots of fun graphic images for my pressed botanicals in 2014, I am also enjoying working with watercolors. This simple background of water drops on a pink and coral wash provides the support for one of my favorite plants for pressing – Mexican feathergrass. I have a second one in the wings and some thoughts of painting insects to hover above the a feathergrass meadow. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, I popped this one into my Etsy shop this morning. Happy New Year to all my friends and followers.

Tags abstract art, botanical, botanical collage, connecticut artist, etsy, lois lawrence, original art, plant collage, pressed botanicals

Categories botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical painting, collage, Garden art, watercolor

Feeling Winter Around the Corner? Might as Well Have Fun With It!

September 25, 2013 //

I don’t always start out with a theme in mind for my botanical collages. Just as often, I am simply experimenting with arranging elements and colors for my graphics and plants with which to build a pleasing collage. In this case, however, the composition immediately skipped my thoughts past this infant autumn and brought me to winter. When I thought the piece was finished, I sensed something missing. Finally, I decided it needed an overlay of pennisetum grass. Voila! It felt — to me at least — like snow.

Other plants in the composition include coleus, ferns, scented geranium and andromeda.

I love eavesdropping on the conversations browsers have with one another when I show my art. So often they find my pieces evocative of feelings worlds away from mine. That’s perfectly fine with me. If we all made the same associations we would all dream the same dreams. How boring!

Tags botanical art, connecticut artist, lois lawrence, plant collage, plant press, preserved plants, pressed flowers, stonington ct

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, collage, Garden art, Gardening, Uncategorized

My Garden is Anything but Minimalist — My Botanical Art Can Be

September 25, 2013 //

This is my version of an arrangement of bud vases. Even this late in the season I have a nice supply of new growth, and therefore tiny leaves in my garden.

The race is on to harvest enough before the first frost.

Tags botanical collage, flower press, plant collage, pressed botanicals, Providence Artisan's Market, Providence Farmenr's Market, stonington artist, stonington ct, Waterfire

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, collage, Garden art, Gardening, Uncategorized

A Burst of Fire and Ice Behind Pennisetum Frosted Explosion

September 10, 2013 //

A friend of mine pinned a photo of a fabulous and unusual quilt which reminded me of a Gustav Klimt painting and inspired me to work on a graphic that suggests fire in the night. The ornamental grass Pennisetum Frosted Explosion seemed like a natural for the foreground. Graphics rule here but I added a bit of bright green paint to the grass to increase the contrast just a bit.

I’ll be showing at the Providence Water Fire in three weeks. If this piece has sold before that I’ll work on a variation for Water Fire because it’s perfect for the occasion. Meanwhile I’ve tucked it into my Etsy shop where I’ve now added some giclee prints of smaller pieces after getting a lot of requests.

Tags artisan's market, botanical art. providence water fire, gustav klimt, lois lawrence, mixed-media, plant collage, pressed botanicals, quilt patterns

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, collage, Garden art, Uncategorized

Asparagus Tops as Art? Absolutely!

September 4, 2013 //

This year my husband’s asparagus crop was — er–modest. By that I mean we got about one stalk a week for about six weeks and goodbye. Now though, we have a virtual three-foot-wide asparagus-top jungle that is too pretty to ignore. The clippings I harvested only took about a week to process with a pressing between sheets of lightly weighted newsprint. For bold highlights in this composition I used a snippet of sensitive fern and the tip of a whole frond at the center. Nasturtiums make the best moons so why look for anything else?

Tags asparagus, botanical art, botanical collage, connecticut artist, flower press, lois lawrence, mixed-media, plant collage, plant press, pressed botanicals

Categories botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, collage, Garden art, Gardening, Uncategorized

A New Presentation of Mexican Feather Grass

August 22, 2013 //

Two young and still tightly formed stalks of Mexican feather grass appear to tower over a little forest of fern ‘trees’ and the whole scene might be glimpsed through a window bordered by stained glass.

Back to the drawing board for my next piece. No harvesting today — rain in Stonington.

Tags botanical art, botanical collage, botanical crafts, floral art, lois lawrence, plant collage, preserving foliage, pressed botanicals, real flowers. real plants, stonington connecticut, stonington garden

Categories botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, Garden art, graphic art

A Child’s Garden

August 19, 2013 //

The birth of a new grandchild this week has put me in the mood to make a bit of children’s art. For this whimsical piece I chose plants that could have been the product of a child’s imagination – foam flower leaves and a crazy coleus on the bottom and fig leaves at the base of the two hills. The composition is rounded out with dainty little andromeda leaves.

Tags botanical art, botanicals, fig leaves, garden. gardening, lois lawrence, mixed media plants, plant collage, plant crafts, stonington artist

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, collage, Garden art, Gardening, graphic art, Uncategorized

Ship Offshore in Paradise

July 24, 2013 //

My friends in and around Stonington can see some of my pieces at Frills Gallery in Watch Hill. (It’s the white building with a front porch as you first enter town) This is a companion piece to one I made recently. The colors have changed and I’ve used different plants — fringed Bleeding Heart for the ‘tall trees’ and ferns and a Foam Flower leaf for the underbrush. A crazy little Bellflower hugs the beach.

Tags botanical art, botanical collage, connecticut artist, horticulture, lois lawrence, mixed-media, night scenes, plant collage, pressed botanicals, real plant, Rhode Island beaches, seascape, ship paintings, ship prints, stonington connecticut, stonington ct, Watch Hill

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, collage, Garden art, Gardening, graphic art, mixed media, nautical art