Lyn attended the Botanical Painting course at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 2004 with tutors Anne Marie Evans and Helen Allen was awarded the Diploma for a series of six watercolours depicting plants that are a source of nectar and pollen for honeybees.
Amicus Botanicus was formed by eleven contemporaries from this course and they held their first exhibition at Shepherd Market in Mayfair, London in September 2008. This group plans to continue exhibiting biennially.
Lyn is on the Committee of Bath Botanical Painters which exhibits annually in Bath. She helped co-ordinate their group exhibition held at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland in Dublin in 2009. This depicted the plants discovered by Augustine Henry in China in the 1880’s.
‘I was brought up on a farm in Herefordshire in the 1950’s when we still used working horses on the land. I remain a country girl at heart and my garden gives me great pleasure, particularly the vegetable plot.
As part of my studies to become a Master Beekeeper I was looking at the structure of bees, flowers and pollen under the microscope and it was while recording this fascinating world that I became inspired to paint what I saw in all its glorious detail.
Close up, I love all the nitty-gritty details of the structure of the flowers. I enjoy the challenge of planning the composition as well as painting the scientific detail. While standing back to look at the plant as a whole there are always shapes and colours which surprise and delight.
E-mail address: lyn.sykes@btconnect.com
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