Island Agapanthus I – Elaine Brett Rowlands
$ 96.59
- About the Artist Having owned two successful galleries for 25 years and selling work by British Contemporary Artists and Makers the tables have been turned as I became a maker in 2020. I create landscapes using clay and plaster, inspired by my love of the countryside, gardens and plants. To make the pictures flowers, leaves and seed heads are pressed into clay. Other marks are made with dried clay, twigs, seed heads and anything sharp such as a knife or needle. This is then cast in plaster and moulded in silicone enabling me to reproduce the image. I make limited editions, as is often done in printmaking. The casts are then finished using acrylic paint thereby ensuring each piece is unique. In 2009 I fulfilled a lifelong dream to live in the Lake District and took over Northern Lights Gallery in Keswick. Surrounded by amazing countryside and incredible artists I dabbled with creative ideas but never had enough time to fulfil them! The opportunity came when I retired in 2018, moved to live in an old cottage surrounded by meadows and country lanes. After renovating the cottage, we then made a beautiful cottage garden. It gave me everything I needed to inspire my pictures at the time. In April 2021 we moved from the cottage into a new house on an estate on the very edge of the Lake District National Park. With only a bare lawn, my priority was to fill the garden with plants and make another cottage garden with a pond for wildlife. Many of the pictures I now make have been created using the lovely plants in my new garden.
