Bold Beauty

Bold Beauty is a watercolour and ink painting of the beautiful Rose Mallee with its beautiful large flowers and growing on vertical stems filled with thick leaves.

Imagined shades of green are added in areas while some maintain the whitish green of the original plant. The bold pink stamen are filled with washes of pink and yellow with intricate linework.

The image is broken down into sections as if it were stained glass. Some of these areas are made separate from their neighbours with extra colour washes and tones.

Painted on 300gsm cotton rag watercolour paper with archival quality ink and watercolours.

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Nicola is a Perth based multi-award winning artist and owner of The Artists Nook a collaborative artists team providing public and community art projects throughout WA. She has a BA Honours in Fine Art Printmaking from Gray’s School of Art in Scotland.

Her art practice encompasses printmaking and painting with a focus on linocut and watercolour. Nature is a constant throughout her work with native flowers and birds as subjects and motifs.

Art Nouveau and stained glass work have been an enduring inspiration and are echoed throughout her pieces. Juxtaposing flat ink against textural and tonal watercolour washes create a tactility in her still life and botanical pieces.