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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Maggi Young on December 10, 2012, 10:57:20 AM
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Heather Raeburn is a botanical artist living and working in Edinburgh. Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art, she has worked successfully in illustrative design and portraiture.
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In 2006 Heather decided to fulfill a long held ambition and turned her talents to botanical painting, studying at the Royal Botanical Gardens where she quickly merged her natural abilities for observation and fine detail to produce beautiful botanical paintings.
Heather has been invited to exhibit at both the Royal Horticultural Society in London, and Botanical Images Scotia at Gardening Scotland. Heather has been commissioned by Mark Hughes to make ink drawing of a newly described Begonia species, Begonia scottii.
Heather is showing a range of around 17 watercolours, plus works in progress, in her ‘Through the Looking Glass’ exhibition, in the John Hope Gateway at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - the exhibition continues until February 24th 2013.
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Included are watercolours of Iris acutiloba subsp. lineolata which was
Collected in Iran by John Mitchell of RBGE.
Forumists have been impressed by the products produced using Heather’s designs and these would make delightful gifts ( at any season!)
Botanical prints, notelets/cards, mugs and bookmarks are available as are useful tea-towels with charming flower designs - sure to cheer any dishwashing session.
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Trollius chinensis
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Fuchsia 'Claudia'
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Crocus
Crocus sp. Product Code: HR-BP001 Price: £25.00 (+ postage)
A beautiful signed Crocus print, double mounted in antique white.
Available in the following sizes: 12" x 10" - £25 + postage 16" x 14" - £35 + postage
Teatowels £5 plus p&p £1 each 50p for additional items.
Designs are Eryngium (Thistle), Meconopsis, Sweetpeas and Fern.
Tea towel designs :
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You can contact Heather to make an order via her mobile phone number 07525841565
She also has a website: www.heatherraeburn.co.uk (http://www.heatherraeburn.co.uk) and you can see stockists of her products via: http://www.heatherraeburn.co.uk/stockists.html (http://www.heatherraeburn.co.uk/stockists.html)
Apologies for the amount of time it has taken to load all the pictures : my internet connection is very slow today - must be the level of Christmas shopping traffic! MY.
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Stunning work ... hearty congratulations to Heather for these beautiful examples (though the words 'tea towel' still fill me with dread ... my main/only task in the Booker household)!