watercolour – Tina's Fine Art UK

Posted on 8 April 202315 November 2023 by Tina

One-day painting workshop Ely Cathedral 12th October 2023 10.00am to 3.30ish

I AM GIVING A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP (adults) IN THE LADY CHAPEL, ELY CATHEDRAL ON 12TH OCTOBER 2023: DESIGN AND PAINT AN ILLUMINATED LETTER. PRICE £40

Suitable for all levels, if you fancy a day’s creative painting in this beautiful chapel, tickets are available direct from the Box office at Ely: CLICK HERE TO BOOK Y O U R PLACE

ALSO: AN ART EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF QUEEN ETHELDREDA: HERBALS AND HARVEST IN THE LADY CHAPEL, ELY CATHEDRAL

Friday 29 September – Friday 13 October

The Iceni Botanical Artists (IBA) are a group of artists based in East Anglia. The members use a wide range of styles, techniques and mediums to depict the plant world, as well as striving for botanical excellence. Their aim is to promote the creation and enjoyment of botanical art and illustration. Some of their members have work held in National collections at Kew and the Royal Horticultural Society.

Each year the IBA have one or two exhibitions, usually in Norfolk, Suffolk or Cambridgeshire. This year they are proud to be able to exhibit in the Lady Chapel for the first time, as part of the Cathedral’s year to celebrate the life of Queen Etheldreda. The theme of the exhibition will reflect her life in flowers and plants, the recently planted Ely Physic Garden, and Harvest Festival celebrations.

All the work exhibited will be for sale, as well as cards, prints, and an IBA 2024 calendar. Two workshops will be held during the exhibition for those interested in learning about botanical art, or for the more experienced to refine existing skills. These workshops can be booked via the links below:

Exhibition details: Iceni Botanical Artists Art Exhibition

5 October: Botanical Drawing in Ink workshop
12 October: Design & Paint an Illuminated Letter

For more about the IBA, member artists and examples of their work visit their website

Posted on 14 May 202123 November 2021 by Tina

1516: The Old Cock has made it to IEA

13th May 2021: Just heard from the East Anglian Artists that this painting, “An Old Cock in a Tree at Woodbridge”, has been selected for this year’s IEA Open Exhibition at Holt Gallery – lovely!

Read the Story behind the painting here: Picture Profile

And he can also be purchased in traditional jigsaw puzzle form: VIEW HERE

Posted on 29 November 202023 November 2021 by Tina

New Painting started: Artist Code 2017 “I Bow to my Queen”

I was fortunate enough to be commissioned to portray the beautiful turtle dove for a “birders” 80th birthday—being his favourite bird. The commissioner contacted me on a Monday when the birthday was the next Saturday. In that short time, all I could produce was a graphite drawing, see bottom of this post.

I was much taken with the beauty of these birds so have decided to use my preliminary sketch from that commission to produce a water colour painting. Heart on sleeve, I shall post progress as and when. Below is my preliminary drawing which today (Sunday 29 November 2020) I have just transferred onto my lovely Aquarelle Arches cotton rag paper ready to paint…. (pencil lines have been enhanced so that you can see it better).

Resources for this work are my own photographs taken at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve in Norfolk a few years ago. The doves and other wild fowl, including Bearded tits/reedlings (painting already done of these), were in a very large aviary, and the birds were acting as near-normal as can be in such circumstances. Ruffs were cavorting, and the male turtle doves were parading—hence the title. The background is a sawn tree-stump surrounded by wood anemones taken in Switzerland a few years ago (but which could easily be in Britain, so I am using it!).