FINE ORIGINAL BOTANICAL WATERCOLOUR OF MECONOPSIS 'WILLIE DUNCAN'

United Kingdom, 2005. Painting. Illus. by Ann Smith. Fine. Framed. Original. see description. A fine, framed and glazed, original botanical watercolour painting of of Meconopsis 'Willie Duncan' by the late botanical artist Ann Smith, signed and dated 2005. Tall, thin portrait format; painting: 680 x 240 mm; frame: 870 x 440 mm. With double, white, acid-free, conservation mount, the lower edge of the outer mount lightly rippled, (the images make this look more significant than it actually is), clean-lined wood frame stained white, lightly rubbed. Very good. [Artist's biography: Ann Smith was a goldsmith by trade, a highly skilled artisan working out of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, but with a passion for botanical illustration. She was a member of various botanical art societies; she exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Botanical Art exhibitions held in The Lindley Hall, London; for the 2004 exhibition she prepared a mixed collection of botanical works including studies of Romneya coulteri and Papaver orientalis 'Beauty of Livermere', in a later exhibition she presented a themed collection featuring various Meconopsis (blue popy) species and cultivars. Ann Smith was an accomplished botanical artist who painted with great fidelity, her plants morphologically accurate and finely detailed, but her paintings are always well composed and perhaps it is this, her strong sense of composition, that is her greatest quality.] We hold a a significant stock so please enquire if you are looking for particular botanical illustrations. UK shipping for this item is likely be around £20..