Lyn joined a local beginners’ class for botanical painting run by Angie Girling in 2001 and it was a group of Angie’s students who formed the thriving Bath Society of Botanic Art of which Lyn is now a Committee Member.
She was accepted on the Botanical Painting course at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 2004 with tutors Anne Marie Evans and Helen Allen and in November 2005 was awarded the diploma for a series of six watercolours depicting plants that are a source of nectar and pollen for honeybees.
Lyn has exhibited with Bath Botanical Painters and is helping co-ordinate their group project, painting the plants discovered by the plant hunter Augustine Henry.
‘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 have kept bees for the last 25 years.
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 scientific world that I became inspired to paint what I saw in all its glorious detail.
I am an inquisitive person and the observation required for the drawing leads to the pleasure of discovery. The challenge of our discipline is to balance the botanical accuracy with artistic presentation and to produce a painting which also conveys to the viewer that joy of discovery.’
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