Tacca chantrieri - Seed pods

Original available.

The plum seeds pods from the Wellington Botanic Garden’s collection were a joy to paint with their subtle transition of colour through the blacks to the fading greens of the sepals at the base of the pods.

I loved the movement of the overall piece and tried to capture this in the composition.

Image size: 475 x 340 mm     

Medium: Watercolour and graphite detail

Reference: Painted from a specimen grown at the Wellington Botanic Gardens 

Collection: in New Zealand

Scale: main pods x 4,
Graphite detail x 2,
Seeds x 12

• Awarded Certificate of Botanical Merit — Society of Botanical Artists, London, UK.
• Image used by the American Society of Botanical Artists at the annual conference in its "Beyond Accuracy - Creating Art" presentation, and also on the front cover of the Sydney Botanic Gardens magazine.