Penny Brown
Natural history painting and drawing
Penny has always worked as a professional artist, first as a theatre designer, creating scenery and costumes for productions all over Britain. A love of drawing and painting led her to illustration, including books on craft, lifestyle, gardening and natural history. The latter especially started to fascinate her and in 2009 she enrolled on the Distance Learning Course with the Society of Botanical Artists. She is now a Fellow of the Society and a tutor on the course, where her best-selling book, Botanical Drawing (Search Press 2018), is a set text. She also leads botanical drawing workshops. Penny works in watercolour, graphite and coloured pencil, creating images that are botanically accurate and visually pleasing. Her prize-winning collage work involves cutting and layering plain papers in a complex, subtle way to achieve an effect reminiscent of 1930s silk screen prints, but with strong contemporary appeal. The natural world and particularly the glorious Dorset countryside is a constant source of inspiration which she loves to share. She exhibits regularly in London and the South-West, including in her Dorset studio, and she is represented by The Gallery at Sculpture by the Lakes. Her work has been shown in Frankfurt and Madrid, and in 2014 her painting ‘Grape Hyacinth’ was loaned to the Museo Centro de Gaias in Santiago de Compostela. Her most recent book, ‘Paint 50 Flowers in Watercolour’ has just been published by Search Press and is a beginners step-by-step guide to flower painting.
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- Website: pennybrownillustrations.com