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Title: Turkish artist well known in Scotland had success at RHS London show
Post by: Maggi Young on April 12, 2014, 02:33:51 PM

At the RHS Botanical Art Show in London, the winner of best in show is Isik Güner (http://www.isikguner.com/) with her watercolour of Gunnera tinctoria, "inspired by Chilean flora".

Isik is familiar to us both for her artwork and also as the daughter of the Prof. Adil  Güner of theNezahat Gökyigit Memorial Park, Istanbul, Turkey. (http://www.bgci.org/worldwide/article/147/Nezahat Gökyiğit)

Isik has done quite a bit of work at RBGE and she has won  several Botanical Art Scotia medals
 How marvelous that this very talented artist has won this RHS award too.
 
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Her award  (https://twitter.com/The_RHS/status/454962991654780928/photo/1)was for a painting of Gunnera tinctoria


Her fellow Turkish artists have exhibited  their paintings of Chilean plants (http://chileanplants.rbge.org.uk/en/index.php/artists/) with success in Scotland too.

Title: Re: Turkish artist well known in Scotland had success at RHS London show
Post by: annew on April 13, 2014, 08:59:14 PM

What a magnificent painting. Congratulations, Isik.

Title: Re: Turkish artist well known in Scotland had success at RHS London show
Post by: Maggi Young on April 16, 2014, 02:19:10 PM

From the Botanics' twitter page
"Delighted Işוk Güner, artist from our upcoming book on Chilean flora, won Best in Show & Gold Medal at the RHS show  last week "
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