Ness Botanic Gardens

Some views of my favourite Gardens, Ness Botanic Gardens on the Wirral. I love my visits here. I am lucky enough to be a friend of the Gardens so I get to go as often as I like in the year.

As a botanical Artist it is perfect for me to follow the changing seasons in the gardens. There are interesting subjects all year round. My favourite place in the gardens is the pine wood. It is so peaceful and quiet.

It is amazing how many of my paintings are based on photographs and sketches I have taken in the Gardens.

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Paeonia Step One

I have drawn out a picture of a Paeonia. I am basing my composition on photographs I took at Ness Botanic Gardens on the Wirral a couple of years ago. 

The flower is bright yellow but it is mainly in a shady spot so it is in shadow.  I want to paint this picture, not for the flowers sake but for the tangle of leaves in shade and sunlight.

I have painted the background with a light wet wash of sunlit green, and have just started to paint sap green on one of the leaves.