{"title":"Mixed Media","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"nettie-baskcomb-brown","title":"Nettie Baskcomb Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003eNettie Baskcomb Brown is a botanical artist using primarily her home grown bee-friendly flowers, or wild foraged flowers, in her art.\u003cbr\u003eBas-relief Botanical Art comprises of intricately detailed 3D textured, tactile, plaster or concrete panels made from fresh seasonal flowers.\u003cbr\u003eBotanical Mixed Media art, using the same source of flowers, introduces a whole new dimension and technique to her floral art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNettie's latest bas-relief works include new collections of 'Botanical Intaglios', 'Bee Hives' and a complete 'Botanical Braille Alphabet'. Nettie encourages you to 'touch' these tactile casts. Her Braille Alphabet has embedded braille in each flower cast making them inclusive and accessible.\u003cbr\u003e'Close your eyes and feel every intricate details of a plant - almost like a fossil'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo make her botanical casts, Nettie presses a selected collection of fresh flowers into clay in a way to re-create their natural movement and drama.. 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 watercolours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis year Nettie is also exhibiting her new mixed media botanical art. Using her large pressed flower collection, Nettie incorporates both these and mono-printed real flowers in unique designs and collages, using acrylics, inks and pastel medium. 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I’ve just completed some very local landscapes, and some figurative work which is a new departure for me.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlborough Open Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53800676884746,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0963\/4529\/3066\/files\/Jacqueline-Mitton2251.jpg?v=1790177953"},{"product_id":"jane-fox","title":"Jane Fox","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eJane will not be opening her studio this year. 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