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Filtering by Tag: artists in residence
We are pleased to announce the newest exhibit, Oak Spring: A Place to Grow. This exhibit features over 80 works created by alumni of our Interdisciplinary Residency, Botanical Artist in Residence, and Fellowships. The opening was held on January 24th and hosted a number of residency alumni whose works were featured in the exhibit as well as a presentation and reading.
Read MoreAs we eagerly await 15+ alumni to join us this year, we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the work that has been done by past residents.
The Oak Spring Garden Foundation is pleased to announce that Beverly Allen, Carol Woodin, and Jean Emmons have been selected for the Botanical Artist in Residence (BAiR) program in 2023. They will also be joined by John Pastoriza-Piñol, a 2020 deferred BAiR. We are excited to host Beverly, Carol, and Jean, and John for three-weeks this spring.
Artists selected for the Oak Spring Garden Foundation’s BAiR program receive a $1,000 individual grant and devote their time at Oak Spring to working on their botanical art, either using material from the formal garden at Oak Spring or from the broader 700-acre Oak Spring landscape. Our hope is that they may also draw inspiration from the Oak Spring Library’s collection. Artists live on-site in nicely appointed shared housing with a studio in close proximity. At the culmination of the residency, each artist has the option to sell one completed work for $1,000 to Oak Spring, and the finished piece will be accessioned into the Oak Spring Library as a contribution to the developing Oak Spring Florilegium.
This residency program is designed to support artists who are practitioners of botanical illustration – which sits at a unique intersection of art and science and is well represented in the Oak Spring Garden Library collection. Applications for the 2024 Botanical Artists in Residence will February 14th, 2023.
To learn more about each of the artists and their work, read below.
Beverly Allen is an Australian based botanical artist. Her works are often life sized and inspired by the native flora of Australia. She is also the co-founder and president of the Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. View her work here.
Corymbia ficifolia, watercolor on paper, 49 x 40 cm, 2018 © Beverly Allen
Carol Woodins is based in Hudson Valley, New York. She has freelanced as an artist for over 20 years, specializing more recently on orchids. View her work at Carol Woodin Botanical Art or on Instagram.
Maize Morado, Zea mays, watercolor on vellum, 16 x 18 inches, 2020 © Carol Woodin
Jean Emmons is a Botanical Illustrator based in Washington State, U.S.A. Her work is informed by light and her technique is, “based on medieval manuscript illumination on vellum.” To learn more about her work visit https://jeanemmons.com/. Follow her work on Instagram.
Iris ‘Full Tilt Boogie’, watercolor and gouache on Kelmscott vellum, 28 x 36 cm, 2022 © Jean Emmons
John Pastoriza-Piñol is a Botanical Illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. He considers himself a contemporary visual artist whose practice sits within the genre of botanical art yet rebels against its continued traditional representations. He was originally selected for our 2020 Botanical Artist in Resident program and deferred his residency due to COVID-19 complications. We are pleased to finally welcome him to Oak Spring. View his work here.
Magnolia x soulangeana, Chinese Magnolia, Watercolor on Arches, 300gsm, 23.4 x 33.1 in, 2022 ©John Pastoriza-Piñol
Read about the talented artists, writers, scholars, researchers, conservationists, and scientists selected for our 2022 Interdisciplinary Residencies.
Read MoreRead about the talented botanical artists who will be joining us at Oak Spring in spring 2022!
Read MoreArtist J. Clayton Bright, who created several bronzes for Bunny Mellon over the years, discusses working with the OSGF founder and returning to Oak Spring to learn about a new art: paper making.
Read More2020 Artist in Residence Aimee Lee chats about transforming plants into beautiful fiber art.
Read MoreRead our Q&A with 2020 Botanical Artist in Residence Kandis Phillips.
Read More2018 Eliza Moore Fellow Lucia Monge recently sent 125 true potato seeds into space, as part of an international space payload aimed to spark conservations about the intersection of art and science, and what kind of role art might play in space exploration. We chatted with Lucia about the fascinating project.
Read MoreThe Oak Spring Garden Foundation is thrilled to announce our fourteen Summer and Fall 2020 Artists in Residence. Read more about them here.
Read MoreRead about the outstanding 2020 recipients of our Stacy Lloyd III and Eliza Moore fellowships.
Read MoreSometimes, the best way to communicate about the environment - whether it be a dire issue such as climate change, or simply to share the beauty of a wildflower - is through art. Read about how our four fall 2019 resident artists did just that during their six weeks at OSGF.
Read MoreA summary of recent, current, and future art-related activities at Oak Spring.
Read MoreClick here to see our artists in residency, who spent two weeks exploring landscape and biodiversity this September.
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