Nettie Baskcomb Brown
Nettie Baskcomb Brown is a botanical artist producing intricately detailed, tactile, plaster and concrete casts from fresh seasonal flowers. This technique is known as 'botanical bas-relief'.
Her latest work includes a 'Botanical Braille Alphabet'. These accessible and inclusive tactile casts include braille embedded into the plaster specifically for the visually impaired. 'Close your eyes and feel every intricate details of a plant - almost like a fossil'.
To make her botanical casts, Nettie presses a selected collection of flowers into clay. She carefully removes each leaf, seed and petal by hand to create a negative impression into which she pours a plaster mix to make a sculptured botanical design. These casts are then cleaned, dried and sanded, and can be left natural or tinted with watercolour.
Plaster casts can be hung as a statement piece in the house. Her unique concrete casts can be displayed indoors or outside in the garden.
As a scientist, archaeologist and beekeeper many of her pieces include medicinal wildflowers, ancient plants, and a plethora of flowers she grows for all pollinators. Her casts can be a simple single flower or a large garden flower panel reflecting the plants collected from that one moment in time.
Her latest commission is for a set of botanical casts depicting her customers garden flowers from each month of the year.
Nettie also offers botanical workshops, personalised garden casts and wedding bouquet preservation.
The studio: On entering through double coach house gates, customers will be able to browse the latest concrete casts on the outside walls. Through the main front door there is a vaulted gallery leading to an office gallery on the left and upstairs to a 'wet' workshop where there will be several works in progress to study.
Also available:- Workshops, Garden commissions and wedding bouquet preservation
Currently also exhibiting 'Senses of Spring' a complete spring botanical braille alphabet in bas-relief - at Talos Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden near Calne SN11 0NX until 27st July
I look forward to seeing you during the open studios - do contact me if you cannot make a weekend date and would like to view privately.
Her latest work includes a 'Botanical Braille Alphabet'. These accessible and inclusive tactile casts include braille embedded into the plaster specifically for the visually impaired. 'Close your eyes and feel every intricate details of a plant - almost like a fossil'.
To make her botanical casts, Nettie presses a selected collection of flowers into clay. She carefully removes each leaf, seed and petal by hand to create a negative impression into which she pours a plaster mix to make a sculptured botanical design. These casts are then cleaned, dried and sanded, and can be left natural or tinted with watercolour.
Plaster casts can be hung as a statement piece in the house. Her unique concrete casts can be displayed indoors or outside in the garden.
As a scientist, archaeologist and beekeeper many of her pieces include medicinal wildflowers, ancient plants, and a plethora of flowers she grows for all pollinators. Her casts can be a simple single flower or a large garden flower panel reflecting the plants collected from that one moment in time.
Her latest commission is for a set of botanical casts depicting her customers garden flowers from each month of the year.
Nettie also offers botanical workshops, personalised garden casts and wedding bouquet preservation.
The studio: On entering through double coach house gates, customers will be able to browse the latest concrete casts on the outside walls. Through the main front door there is a vaulted gallery leading to an office gallery on the left and upstairs to a 'wet' workshop where there will be several works in progress to study.
Also available:- Workshops, Garden commissions and wedding bouquet preservation
Currently also exhibiting 'Senses of Spring' a complete spring botanical braille alphabet in bas-relief - at Talos Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden near Calne SN11 0NX until 27st July
I look forward to seeing you during the open studios - do contact me if you cannot make a weekend date and would like to view privately.
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From the centre of Pewsey (King Alfred's Statue) take the road to Burbage / Milton Lilbourne. Go over the mini roundabout at the junction of Hollybush Lane/St John's Close. Stable End Cottage, 4 Milton Road is the second driveway on the right hand side.
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Stable End Cottage, 4 Milton Road,, Pewsey, SN9 5JJ
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