New Holland and Gum Flowers 2

New Holland and Gum Flowers 2 by Nicola Cowie

The second in my series of New Holland Honeyeaters and Silver Princess gum flowers.

The bird and flowers are larger than life and and stylized to allow space for the watercolour washes to become the focus with their areas of granulation and puddles of colour created in the drying process.

Painted with layered washes of watercolour and finished with intricate pen and ink linework which makes the painting look like stained glass.

• Artist's quality watercolours and ink
• Daler Rowney Prestige watercolour board. 2mm thick so can be float mounted or matted.
• Unframed

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Nicola is a Perth based multi-award winning artist and owner of The Artists Nook a collaborative artists team providing public and community art projects throughout WA. She has a BA Honours in Fine Art Printmaking from Gray’s School of Art in Scotland.

Her art practice encompasses printmaking and painting with a focus on linocut and watercolour. Nature is a constant throughout her work with native flowers and birds as subjects and motifs.

Art Nouveau and stained glass work have been an enduring inspiration and are echoed throughout her pieces. Juxtaposing flat ink against textural and tonal watercolour washes create a tactility in her still life and botanical pieces.