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Warm Colors to Remind us that Summer’s On the Way

February 26, 2015 //

This little interpretation of a Florida salt marsh is 4th in line for its first coat of shiny resin. Temperatures in New England have been at record lows so I’m holding back on the finishing steps of my collage series until Mother Nature gets with the program. Resin likes a nice warm room in which to cure. Meanwhile I just got my first aookication for a spring show out in the mail so will keep plenty of work in the pipeline.

This piece measures just 4″ x 6″ Making small pieces is one way of keeping my work affordable but I’m always open to making a bigger version of any miniature.

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Remembering Caribbean Nights

August 12, 2014 //

This week I’m feeling confident in my resining techniques and comfortable with my full-sized propane torch, so I’m trying my hand at some larger pieces. This one measures 6″ x 12″. If that doesn’t sound large, try a few steps of the resin dance yourself and you’ll see it my way. The working window is only about 20 minutes from the first pour to removal of the last bubble and I work with up to six pieces at a time. Still, I’m on the march and have larger panels waiting in the wings.

For the real plants in the foreground, I chose a mix of weeds and garden plants — wild grass seed heads, a piece of Japanese maple, and a little leaf of curly coleus.

Tags abstract art, botanical art, botanical collage, lois lawrence, mixed-media, my stonington garden, pressed flowers, providence artist, stonington artist, stonington connecticut, stonington ct

Categories acrylic painting, art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical painting, collage, Garden art, Gardening, graphic art, mixed media, multi media, nautical art

The New Crop of Raw Materials

May 19, 2014 //

Yesterday was a perfect spring day in southern New England, so my husband and I paid a visit to our favorite garden center – The Farmer’s Daughter in South Kingston, Rhode Island. This collection of spiky papyrus, ruffled coleus, scented geranium and abutilon will spend the summer in a great planter on my deck and supply me with terrific foliage for my pressed botanicals. Meanwhile, in the garden, my ferns, miniature ivy, yellow archangel, and fringed bleeding heart have all come to life and are ready for a judicious harvest.

Meanwhile, work continues on my new project – pressed botanicals on acrylic backgrounds. For these I use wood panels as supports, and encase the finished work in two or three coats of two-part resin. This one features a single feathery Japanese maple leaf and awaits its second coat of resin. Out with the gas mask…

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Categories acrylic painting, art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical painting, collage, pressed botanicals, pressed flowers, real botanicals

Something New for the New Year- Watercolor Backgrounds

December 29, 2013 //

Until now I’ve created backgrounds for my real pressed botanicals on computer. To compliment that body of work, I recently began adding a series of acrylic paintings with similar subjects.

My last two pieces combine both disciplines. Instead of computer graphics, I have created bacgrounds on original watercolors. So far, I’m having fun with the process. I popped these two into my Etsy shop tonight and will show them next week in Stonington at the Velvet Mill.

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Categories acrylic painting, art, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical painting, collage, Uncategorized

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson – Thoughts that Inspire My Work

August 25, 2013 //

The dozens of new friends who meet with me and buy my botanical art for their homes and workplaces and for their friends share with me a love of nature and the fun that we can have contemplating the outdoors one leaf at a time. I’m surprised by the number of people who share that they regularly collect and press plants just for the joy of it. I hope I inspire them to take it a step further.

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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

Pressed Foliage as a Family Crest?

July 9, 2013 //

This simple composition consists of three leaves — scented geranium, ivy, and sweet potato vine — surrounded by a faux double mat. Sometimes simple is best.

Tags connecticut artist plant collage mixed media original botanical art lois lawrence, ivy, pressed botanicals, scented geranium, stonington ct, stonington garden, sweet potato vine

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One Way to Make a Single Leaf the Center of Attention

June 22, 2013 //

The single exquisite sweet potato leaf at the center of this composition seems to swirl in a vortex created by the plants around it. They include three varieties of fern — the dagger-like ones are Sensitive Fern — Sweet Woodruff, Ivy, Yellow Archangel and Andromeda. Although I usually design a graphic background for my work, I thought in this case, simple was best.

Tags botanical artist, collage art, ferns, lois lawrence, mixed media plants, painted fern, plant collage, plant press, pressed botanicals, pressed flowers, sensitive fern, stonington ct

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, collage, Garden art, Gardening, mixed media, multi media