The Woodland Trust and the Clarence Bicknell Association announce a campaign to raise funds for the Woodland Trust from the sale of celebrity-signed prints of flower watercolours by the Victorian polymath, botanist and artist Clarence Bicknell. Our photos shows celebrities signing a limited number of the pictures novelist Frederick Forsyth in the company of supporter […]
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The Clarence Bicknell Association, the Woodland Trust UK https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk, writer Frederick Forsyth and broadcaster Clive Anderson, President of the Woodland Trust, have made a preliminary announcement of their joint campaign to raise several tens of thousands of pounds for the Woodland Trust’s objective to protect woods and trees, preventing the loss of irreplaceable habitat, nature and
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On 21st February 2024 I made a revision to the spreadsheet listing all the watercolours and the people who signed the Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book. The new version is at the same URL as before i.e. …https://clarencebicknell.com/wp-content/uploads/casa_fontanalba_visitors_books.xls. I needed an accurate list of all the watercolours in the book, where in the past I had
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English translations below Siamo lieti di annunciare una grande mostra che coinvolge Clarence Bicknell e il suo amico Prof. Arturo Issel a Genova dal 25 novembre 2023 al 7 gennaio 2024. Il Palazzo Ducale di Genova ospita entrambe le mostre https://palazzoducale.genova.it/mostra /chronos/ e una serie di conferenze https://palazzoducale.genova.it/evento/laboratori-attivita-collaterali-alla-mostra-chronos/ e una il 20 dicembre alla quale
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Gisella Merello (storica, ricercatrice e scrittrice di Bordighera, e Compagna dell’Associazione Clarence Bicknell) ha onorato l’Associazione Clarence Bicknell chiedendoci di pubblicare su questo sito quattro dei suoi articoli, in italiano. Sono ciascuno relativo a Bordighera e Clarence Bicknell in modi diversi. Gisella Merello (historian, reseacher and writer in Bordighera, and Companion of the Clarence Bicknell
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Announcing an innovative exhibition involving Clarence Bicknell … CHRONOS… The AI-enhanced exhibitionTHE FOOTPRINT OF MAN IN THE ANTHROPOCENE OF LIGURIA350,000 YEARS AGO TO NOW The exhibition is curated by Stefano Schiaparelli (Associate Professor (Zoology and Marine Biology) at the Università degli Studi di Genova) acting for the university’s Rector’s delegate for the enhancement and propagation
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clarence-bicknell-a-revolution-in-art-tickets-724309247457 Illustrated Talk on Clarence Bicknell, the Renowned Botanic Painter by his great grand nephew Marcus Bicknell In April 2023 Marcus Bicknell and Selby Wittingham discussed Elhanan Bicknell’s early patronage of JMW Turner and more classical artists. Now Marcus, Elhanan’s great great grandson, returns to show how Elhanan’s son Clarence moved naturally towards the more
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The Annual General Meeting of the Clarence Bicknell Association will be held by Zoom on Tuesday 18 July 2023 at 15h UK (16h Bordighera, 10am EST). All 2023 members may attend by Zoom or in person at Homefarm Orchard, Kirby Close, Chalfont St Giles HP8 4FF. We will handle the formalities of the accounts, re-election
The idea of the 2024 exhibition gives me the opportunity to root out creations by Clarence which have been lying in bottom drawers for 100 years. One of the them is a hand painted set of playing cards; the families for Happy Families are of course species of mountain flowers, photo right. The owner, my
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We were at the presentation of the book The English in Liguria at the Italian Embassy in London on Thursday. Continuing the theme this week of the Italians’ appreciation of Clarence Bicknell’s works 1842-1918, we were delighted to host the visit of Francesca Centurione-Scotto Boschieri (Chair of the Amici dei Giardini Botanici Hanbury, founder-member of
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