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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Celebrated artist/sculptor Halima Cassell talks about her love of Clarence’s symmetrical botanical watercolours which are hidden away in the archive of the Fitzwillia m Museum in Cambridge University. Symmetry is a way of seeing nature adopted with such success by William de Morgan https://www.demorgan.org.uk/. https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/conversations/podcasts/in-my-minds-eye/a-simple-shape-repeated-halima-cassell Here is a gallery of photos taken in 2017 by
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You can now browse many of Clarence Bicknell’s works of art in galleries on our web site organised by category Gallery – The Book of Guests in Esperanto https://clarencebicknell.com/gallery-the-casa-fontanalba-visitors-book/ Gallery – The Children’s Picture Book of Wild Plants https://clarencebicknell.com/gallery-the-fitzwilliam-albums/ Gallery – botanical works Marcus Bicknell 30 September 2023
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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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A Victorian Polymath in the Maritime Alps: A Passion for Wild Flowers The exhibition of botanical art and creations of Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918), as well as other UK-Italian themes, in the Guildhall Art Gallery during Q3 2024 presents exciting opportunities for sponsors, donors, and stakeholders to celebrate links with Italy. The exhibition coincides with Alderman
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Clarence Bicknell – a video invitation to you from Marcus Bicknell to join the Clarence Bicknell Association – aimed primarily at Bicknells and the wider family in the USA, Europe and worldwide. Yes please, we would love your modest support, and it would be a pleasure to count you among our number. Marcus Bicknell invites
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Clarence’s favourite flower, the humble Dandelion, in one of the vellum-bound albums by Clarence Bicknell in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. No.59 in our series of postings of images by Clarence Bicknell. https://bit.ly/37iy8AU12 This image by Clarence Bicknell of the humble dandelion in a majestic arts-and-crafts pose is one of his most iconic. The symmetrical pattern
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Clarence Bicknell created this symmetrical pattern in one of the vellum-bound albums now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It’s the Solanum linnaeanum Hepper & P. – Genus Solanum Family: Solanaceae, which includes food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). The family contains also nightshades (Solanum dulcamara) and
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In our regular postings on Facebook, occasionally here, we have featured at least three times Clarence’s watercolour designs based on the fritillary. It’s an extrordinarily beautiful bell-shaped brightly-patterned wild flower of the Alps – all its varieties inspired Clarence to exceptional artistic creations.This article brings his various fritillary creations on one page, and photos by
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