Recent work
Lately I have been preparing for The Royal Watercolour Society’s 2024 annual Spring exhibition taking place from 29 March – 28 April. This year's theme is 'Transparency'. Find out more via Bankside Gallery.
Watercolour has been a medium that has always been treasured for its transparency. It is a medium that is particularly well suited for painting botanical specimens. It allows artists to obtain perfect colour matching by allowing the white or cream of the paper to glow through transparent layers of watercolour paint.
Six of my small watercolour paintings of gardens will also be showing at an exhibition with The Small Paintings Group at Mandell’s Gallery in Norwich from 20 April – 18 May.
Amaryllis and spring flowers
32cm x 51cm
Tulips (rhubarb and custard)
34cm x 27cm
Blue spring flowers
33cm x 23cm
Spring flowers on the garden table
12.5cm x 11.5cm
Flora in the Garden at Cliveden
13cm x 20.5cm
The Olive Tree at the Chelsea Physic Garden
13cm x 16cm
The Secret Garden, Goodnestone
11cm x 16.5cm
In the Shade of the Magnolias, Goodnestone
9cm x 11.5cm
Gargoyle at Villa d’Este, Tivoli (1)
8.5cm x 11.5cm
Gargoyle at Villa d’Este, Tivoli (2)
8.5cm x 11.5cm
Explore more of Liz Butler’s recent work…
Olive tree after a trim (14cm x 13.5cm)
Shady walk, Chelsea Physic Garden (8.5cm x 12.5cm)
Under the bay tree (12.9cm x 16.6cm)
Crocosmia and clematis (13cm x 13cm)