Rosalind Wise: Garden Borders Boxed Notecard Assortment

Rosalind Wise is inspired by all that nature has to offer and has an affinity for painting scenes of garden borders. She often makes quick plein air sketches during her morning walks, recording the relationships of plants to one another. Later, in her home studio, she works from her studies, collected specimens, and photographs to complete her oils on canvas, typically four to five feet across. Her observant eye and love of the natural world are clearly evident in the four fresh, vibrant paintings of garden borders featured in this notecard assortment. Contains five each of the following notecards: Garden Border with Kniphofia and Crocosmia Garden Border with Seedheads, Salvia, Knautia, and Grasses Garden Path through the Hot Border Garden Border with Monarda, Heleniums, and Lobelia

Rosalind Wise

From exquisite portraits of single blooms to her Flower Cycle masterpiece, Rosalind Wise (British, b. 1949) takes inspiration from nature, painting scenes of gardens and meadows, ponds and paths on canvases typically four to five feet across. Her early work focused on small, singular bits of the natural world. These days, Wise says, her response “is to the colour, tone and movement found there. It is to the tip or balance between order and chaos, freedom or restraint, things separate yet mingling together, all part of the expressive whole.” A native of South Wales, Wise now lives in Gloucestershire, painting a reality that exists outside modern life’s constant consumerism. Her goal is to reconnect us with the beauty and magic of existence.