Events 2024
In 2024 I will be exhibiting some of my botanical paintings of local wild plants in our Brecon museum and library, Y Gaer, and also for the month of July I have gallery space in Found in their Henry Vaughan themed exhibition (details to be announced soon).
Until September in Y Gaer, Brecon
Shining Mountains and Flowery Vales is an exhibition exploring the interface between local artist and nature.
Shining Mountains and Flowery Vales is an exhibition exploring the interface between local artist and nature.
Events 2023
Royal Horticultural Society Botanical Art and Photography Show 2023
This year I will be exhibiting again at the RHS show with a collection entitled "Medicinal Plants from the River Usk Valley".
The show will be on from 16th June to 9th July in the Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London, SW3 4RY. More details of the whole show can be found here www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/rhs_botanical_art___photography_show_2023
Henry Vaughan was a seventeenth century poet and physician. He marvelled at the “chyme and symphony of nature” when wandering the Usk Valley and had a prodigious knowledge of local medicinal plants. Following in Vaughan’s footsteps, I have been inspired to record medicinal plants near his home. I gather small samples, rooted where possible for later replacement, and paint from life; measured pencil drawings precede application of dry brush watercolour. I rarely do preliminary drawings and return to the original collection site later to obtain seed heads.
Brycheiniog Journal
In parallel with my RHS exhibit I have been exploring the life of Henry Vaughan as a doctor. Henry lived across the River Usk from me, in the Brecon Beacons in the seventeenth century and I frequently tread the same hillsides, and likely some of the same paths he followed all those centuries ago. My article entitled "Breconshire Plants and Seventeenth Century Purveyors of Medicines Through the Lens of Country Doctor and Poet, Henry Vaughan" will be published in the 2023 edition of Brycheiniog Journal. More details can be found here brecknocksociety.co.uk/resources/brycheiniog/
This year I will be exhibiting again at the RHS show with a collection entitled "Medicinal Plants from the River Usk Valley".
The show will be on from 16th June to 9th July in the Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London, SW3 4RY. More details of the whole show can be found here www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/rhs_botanical_art___photography_show_2023
Henry Vaughan was a seventeenth century poet and physician. He marvelled at the “chyme and symphony of nature” when wandering the Usk Valley and had a prodigious knowledge of local medicinal plants. Following in Vaughan’s footsteps, I have been inspired to record medicinal plants near his home. I gather small samples, rooted where possible for later replacement, and paint from life; measured pencil drawings precede application of dry brush watercolour. I rarely do preliminary drawings and return to the original collection site later to obtain seed heads.
Brycheiniog Journal
In parallel with my RHS exhibit I have been exploring the life of Henry Vaughan as a doctor. Henry lived across the River Usk from me, in the Brecon Beacons in the seventeenth century and I frequently tread the same hillsides, and likely some of the same paths he followed all those centuries ago. My article entitled "Breconshire Plants and Seventeenth Century Purveyors of Medicines Through the Lens of Country Doctor and Poet, Henry Vaughan" will be published in the 2023 edition of Brycheiniog Journal. More details can be found here brecknocksociety.co.uk/resources/brycheiniog/
Events 2018
The Illustrated College Herbal
I would like to draw your attention to a recent venture shared with many other botanical artists and the Royal College of Physicians. To celebrate their 500th anniversary the RCP, in collaboration with Gillian Barlow, has produced a beautiful volume recording nearly 200 plants from the Pharmacopoea Londinensis beds of the College Medicinal Gardens.The Illustrated College Herbal features paintings and late medieval woodcuts of nearly 200 plants and is authored by Jane Knowles, Henry Oakeley and Gillian Barlow. I have two paintings featured in the book - the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) and the figwort (Scrophularia nodosa).
I attach a flyer for the book, which will be launched on 11th May and the original paintings and limited edition prints will be available to purchase from the artists and will be exhibited in the Council Chamber at the RCP in London from 20–31 August 2018. (Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, London NW1 4LE).
I would like to draw your attention to a recent venture shared with many other botanical artists and the Royal College of Physicians. To celebrate their 500th anniversary the RCP, in collaboration with Gillian Barlow, has produced a beautiful volume recording nearly 200 plants from the Pharmacopoea Londinensis beds of the College Medicinal Gardens.The Illustrated College Herbal features paintings and late medieval woodcuts of nearly 200 plants and is authored by Jane Knowles, Henry Oakeley and Gillian Barlow. I have two paintings featured in the book - the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) and the figwort (Scrophularia nodosa).
I attach a flyer for the book, which will be launched on 11th May and the original paintings and limited edition prints will be available to purchase from the artists and will be exhibited in the Council Chamber at the RCP in London from 20–31 August 2018. (Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, London NW1 4LE).
Events 2017
Contemporary Botanical Paintings at The Garden Museum, London
Julyl– September 2017
Tradescant's Orchard, the botanical art exhibition at the Garden Museum in Lambeth www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/ is now on! It features fruits that may have been grown in the Tradescant's market garden in Lambeth in the 1600's. It is celebrating the renovation of the museum and the showing of the Tradescant's Orchard portfolio, one of the finest horticultural treasures in the Bodleian Library. My contribution is the Catshead apple and was first described in this country by John Parkinson in his work "Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris"
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Julyl– September 2017
Tradescant's Orchard, the botanical art exhibition at the Garden Museum in Lambeth www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/ is now on! It features fruits that may have been grown in the Tradescant's market garden in Lambeth in the 1600's. It is celebrating the renovation of the museum and the showing of the Tradescant's Orchard portfolio, one of the finest horticultural treasures in the Bodleian Library. My contribution is the Catshead apple and was first described in this country by John Parkinson in his work "Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris"
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Events 2016
MAY 2016 RHS Malvern Spring Show
From Thurs 5th to Sun 8th May I have been allocated botanical art exhibition space at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. the show opens from 9am until 6pm and looks to be a welcome start to the gardening season. More details of the festival can be found at the RHS Malvern website www.rhs.org.uk/shows and as well as the botanical art exhibition there will be show gardens and plant exhibits, as well as talks, demonstrations and advice available.
POSTSCRIPT: Very happy to say I was awarded a Silver Gilt Medal for my submission to the show. The paintings I submitted were a selection form those shown on my 'Medicinal herbs through the ages' page.
From Thurs 5th to Sun 8th May I have been allocated botanical art exhibition space at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. the show opens from 9am until 6pm and looks to be a welcome start to the gardening season. More details of the festival can be found at the RHS Malvern website www.rhs.org.uk/shows and as well as the botanical art exhibition there will be show gardens and plant exhibits, as well as talks, demonstrations and advice available.
POSTSCRIPT: Very happy to say I was awarded a Silver Gilt Medal for my submission to the show. The paintings I submitted were a selection form those shown on my 'Medicinal herbs through the ages' page.
Previous shows and events
2015 Exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians
In 2014 I was artist in residence in the gardens at The Royal College of Physicians. The series of paintings I produced on paper and vellum recorded some of the history and chemistry of a selection of their medicinal plants.The finished pieces are included in "Chemistry in the Gardens: paintings by Nina Krauzewicz" an exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians, near Regent's Park in London, from 2nd March to 31st July 2015
In 2014 I was artist in residence in the gardens at The Royal College of Physicians. The series of paintings I produced on paper and vellum recorded some of the history and chemistry of a selection of their medicinal plants.The finished pieces are included in "Chemistry in the Gardens: paintings by Nina Krauzewicz" an exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians, near Regent's Park in London, from 2nd March to 31st July 2015
CHRISTMAS 2014
This Christmas I will be at two local fairs - on 29th and 30th November (10am to 5pm) I will be at Bix Village Hall with The Bix Six and Friends for our regular Christmas do and then the following weekend Sunday (7th Dec) at St Andrew's Church Hall in Caversham for our Caversham Artists Christmas Gala - open from 2pm to 6.30pm. Both fairs feature local artists who make all their own work to a very high standard. More info is on the posters below and on these websites thebixsix.wordpress.com and cavershamartists.co.uk. Hope to see you there!
This Christmas I will be at two local fairs - on 29th and 30th November (10am to 5pm) I will be at Bix Village Hall with The Bix Six and Friends for our regular Christmas do and then the following weekend Sunday (7th Dec) at St Andrew's Church Hall in Caversham for our Caversham Artists Christmas Gala - open from 2pm to 6.30pm. Both fairs feature local artists who make all their own work to a very high standard. More info is on the posters below and on these websites thebixsix.wordpress.com and cavershamartists.co.uk. Hope to see you there!
SPRING 2014
Many thanks for everyone who visited Bix Village Hall for Bix Six and Friends at Henley Art Trail and also those who came to my house for Caversham Art Trail. We had a great time with lots of visitors and demos.
Many thanks for everyone who visited Bix Village Hall for Bix Six and Friends at Henley Art Trail and also those who came to my house for Caversham Art Trail. We had a great time with lots of visitors and demos.
HERITAGE WEEK 2014 This year, along with several other Caversham Artists I will have an installation on show for Heritage Week, at Caversham Court Gardens. All the works will be outside and the line up so far is Mary Phelan - In the Frame Nina Krauzewicz - Language of the Trees Debbie Page and Rosemary Muirhead - Medieval Tiles Robin Thomas - Poems in the Park See www.heritageopendays.org.uk from July onwards for more details |
WINTER 2014
Planned winter shows will be at Bix Village Hall on the last weekend in November and then on 7th December we will be at St Andrews Hall in Caversham for our Caversham Artists Christmas one day event. Watch this space for more details later in the year.
Planned winter shows will be at Bix Village Hall on the last weekend in November and then on 7th December we will be at St Andrews Hall in Caversham for our Caversham Artists Christmas one day event. Watch this space for more details later in the year.