4 April – 31 May, 2009
Opening Sunday 5th April at 11am
E ficifolia pygmy possumHELEN FITZGERALD
Nature's Patterns
Watercolours and Botanicals
An exhibition of watercolours featuring the infinite patterns of nature, and the flora and fauna that makes this land we call Australia, unique
Opening by Canberra ABC TV's weather presenter Mark Carmody
Sunday 5 April, 11am

Helen Fitzgerald is an art teacher and botanical artist who has studied in Australia, Austria and Italy. This wide range of influences can be seen in her watercolours that have been enjoyed at the Sydney and Canberra Botanica exhibitions as well as the Royal Horticultural Society (where she won a gold medal) and the Society of Floral Painters, both in the U.K. Helen’s work is prized in corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas.

For this exhibition Helen’s new works include her Patterns series, impressions of nature’s flora and fauna on Japanese ‘Yupo’ paper onto which the watercolour flows, not so much controlled, as guided, to form outstanding and beautiful patterns.

Helen also presents the Australian landscape in her unique impressionistic style, rich in colour and vibrancy, drawing on the array of colours experienced in a variety of natural lights that she has become so well known for as a highly practiced watercolour artist and botanical illustrator.

Helen Fitzgerald’s latest solo exhibition Nature’s Patterns, will be opened by Mark Carmody, Canberra ABC TV’s lively weather presenter and expert horticulturalist who adds a definite gardening flavour to the nightly news.

Catalogue
(Not all titles on website - for more details contact Gallery Staff on 62381682 or gallery@bwoodworks.com.au)

Patterns 16 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 2 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 6 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 10 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 24 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Lake View watercolour 16 x 26cm $390E ficifolia, Pygmy Possum watercolour 40 x 27cm $1200Pomegranate watercolour 24 x 13cm $400Blue Wrens Pair 1 watercolour 15 x 10cm $245Blue Wrens, Everlasting Daisy watercolour 40 x 27cm $750Blue Wrens 1 watercolour on Yupo 40 x 28cm $500Corymbia ficifolia watercolour 25 x 12cm $600Feather Gliders watercolour 24 x 16cm $700 Gang Gangs watercolour 55 x 35cm
$880Yellow Faced Honeyeater watercolour 40 x 27cm $580Pardalote, Blue Gum watercolour 55 x 35cm $1600Patterns 1 watercolour on Yupo 11 x11cm $245Patterns 4 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 8 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 9 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 11 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 12 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 14 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Patterns 15 watercolour on Yupo 11 x 11cm $245Red Browed Finches watercolour 40 x 27cm $650Sturts Desert Pea watercolour 15 x 10cm $250Willy Wagtail watercolour 35 x 27cm $620Blue Wrens 2 watercolour 10 x 15cm $245Blue Wrens in Wattle watercolour 35 x 27cm $800