What are the ingredients for a successful career as a botanical artist? In The Tapestry of Life, Susan Christopher-Coulson identifies the threads that have formed the warp and weft of her profession: the natural world and her love of drawing woven together with skills in design and making. Working in coloured pencils on board or watercolour paper, Susan's enthusiasm for joyful juxtapositions of colour and form is infectious and a practical section detailing the tools of her trade along with a step-by-step tutorial featuring a broken English Florists' tulip will equip readers interested in trying the medium for themselves. Take inspiration from the compositions, the subjects and the presentation of Susan's award-winning work but most of all, from the joy that permeates this account of a life spent making botanical art.

From award-winning botanical artist Susan Christopher-Coulson.

About the Author
Susan Christopher-Coulson is an award-winning botanical artist and tutor. She has been awarded two Royal Horticultural Society gold medals as well as awards from The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, The Society of Botanical Artists, and The Society of Floral Painters and Florum. Her original artworks are in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery collection at Kew Gardens, the RHS Lindley Library and the Florilegium archive of Sheffield Botanical Gardens.

Reviews

The poems and the paintings deepen our appreciation of different views of the same landscape... A very satisfying, genre-defying collection of words and images.

* Wild Court *



Book Information
ISBN 9781915048035
Author Susan Christopher-Coulson
Format Paperback
Page Count 84
Imprint Two Rivers Press
Publisher Two Rivers Press