Fairy Fights Bumblebee: Arthur Rackham @ Bees in Art
Fairy Fights Bumblebee by Arthur
Rackham
Following an early false start as a clerk, Rackham went
on to be one of the best known and loved book
illustrators of late Victorian and early 20th
Century Britain. Rackham's Victorian sensibility and
consummate draughtsmanship produced illustrations of
near hallucinatory scenes, which were full of danger
yet never dangerous and imbued with childlike
wonder.
In 1907 Rackham
illustrated the dreamlike Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland by Lewis Caroll, and fittingly went on in
1908 to illustrate Shakespeare's: A
Midsummer-Night's Dream. Widely regarded as one
of Rackham's masterpieces, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
features 40 coloured plates, including our fairy and
bumblebee battle. Populated by Shakespeare's
protagonists and other fairies and weird peoples, A
Midsummer-Night's Dream proved to be an ideal
vehicle for Rackham's
art and is now a much sought after book.
Bee Books @ Bees in Art
Some of the bee books in the Bees in
Art bookshop.
RCA Secret 2010 Revealed
Bombus subterraneous
mezzotint engraving by Andrew Tyzack
donated to RCA Secret 2010 and now revealed. Two
other mezzotints were donated by Andrew and can be
seen at the following links: RCA Secret Drone and RCA Secret Worker.
Andrew Tyzack @ RCA Secret 2010
Exhibition open at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU on Friday 12th November, and then from Sunday 14th November to Friday 19th November, 11am to 6pm (Thursday until 9pm). Please note we are CLOSED on Saturday 13th November. This is due to Government security restrictions for The Festival of Remembrance. Free Admission. The postcards will also be available for viewing on this website from Friday 12 November. The Sale will be on Saturday 20 November, 8am-6pm. Postcards will only be available to purchase in person at the Sale. It is recommended that you prepare a list of cards in advance, as the exhibition will not be open for viewing on the morning of the Sale.
The cards will be sold to the public in a huge one-day sale, with each postcard costing just £45. A maximum of four cards may be purchased per person. You must be registered as a Collector to purchase. Click here to register.
Machair Mecca: William Neill paints Bumblebees on the BBC
Please click the above
link to view this film of William
Neill painting bumblebees on the
BBC
Artist William
Neill loves
painting bees, and as such he must scrutinise his
subject. These close encounters have made him more
fascinated than ever by these incredible insects.
The wildflower meadows, or machair, of the
Outer Hebrides
where Neil paints are a
rare haven for bees and a reminder of what much of
Britain looked like before intensive farming drained
the landscape of its wildflower colour.
Bees in Art welcomes new artist William Neill
Great Yellow Bumblebee by William Neill
William has been fascinated by natural history since
the age of eight, when his family moved from town to
country, and has been painting even longer. He taught
art in Britain and Australia before moving to South
Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland in 1980.
The landscape and wildlife of the Hebrides, Scotland
are a constant inspiration, and William as often as
possible works from life in the field, using
watercolour and acrylic.
William runs courses on watercolour painting and
wildlife art, and occasionally teaches on the further
education and degree courses at Taigh Chearsabhagh, the
award winning arts centre in North Uist.
William's work has appeared in numerous natural history
publications. Notably he has illustrated the Scottish
Wildlife Trust's Discovery book of the Western Isles.
He exhibited in 2009 at the Scottish Ornithologist’s Centre,
Aberlady and as a member of the Society of Wildlife
Artists regularly exhibits at their Autumn
Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London.
William Neill
painting bumblebees in his Outer Hebridean garden
The Empty Skep by Shellie Byatt
The Shape of Magic
4th September - 9th October 2010
Shellie Byatt & Betty Pennell
with ceramics by Jacqueline Leighton Boyce
The Art Shop, Cross Street,
Abergavenny NP7 5EH
The Empty Skep by Shellie Byatt
“There is a common thread that links these artists’
work. Their work is narrative in content, conjuring up
magical environments against which human dramas and
elusive emotions are played out.” The Art Shop
“I was talking with Ronald Pennell about the sad
state of the bee world at the moment (and his work in
response to it) that I decided to make an image myself.
Alas for the poor human in my picture - the skep is
empty and she has already been reduced to pretending to
be a bee herself (wings and striped dress) perhaps
trying to use a sort of sympathetic magic! The image is
made of paper and pencil on board in a type of collage
that I have developed over the years - no imported
images, all of the image is made first-hand by
me.” Shellie Byatt
Bees In Art: Raising Awareness About Pollinators In Peril
Beekeeping in Britain by
Andrew
Tyzack
Bees In Art: Raising Awareness About
Pollinators In Peril
Andrew
Tyzack and Debbie
Grice Found
Special Gallery To Celebrate Role Of Bees In Our
Lives
Written By Todd Wilkinson
As artists
who together operate The Land Gallery
in England in East
Yorkshire, they decided to do something about it:
Put out a call to other artists and open a virtual
gallery with procceds from the sale of artwork going
to the cause of pollinator conservation. Tyzack has
a particular insight into the problem, which in many
parts of the globe has manifested itself as Colony
Collapse Disorder. Outbreaks of CCD have been blamed
on a virulent combination of mites and a fungus
killing honey bees with weakened immune systems
potentially caused by exposure to pesticides. Loss
of habitat also is taking a serious toll on wild
bees, with several species in the U.S. now
imperiled.
Tyzack himself is a third-generation beekeeper, a
practitioner of the apiary arts, husbanding his
domestic honey hives to make sweet honey.
More and more, artists are stepping forward to aid in
the cause of conservation. This effort on behalf of
pollinators is similar to one led by biologist Kerry
Kriger who founded Save The Frogs and has sponsored an
art contest that is open to painters of all ages.
Bees in Art celebrates Hymenoptera, the order of insect
that encompasses honey bees, bumblebees and related
species. He said that he and Grice welcome artists in
North America to contact him if they are interested in
supporting bee conservation by making works available
for sale...
For complete article please visit The Wildlife Art
Journal.
New Queen Honeybee Engraving by Andrew Tyzack
New in Bees in Art: Honeybee tryptich by Richard Lewington
