"lost... Elizabeth Blackadder prints... unearthed... The rare portfolio is part of Blackadder's... Orchid series dating from 1991...
The rediscovered artworks will be on display and available for purchase at the Glasgow Art Fair... The discovery was made at Glasgow Print Studios, where the artist has printed for 20 years... said John McKechnie, director of the studio. "... They are very sought after works... Blackadder is one of... Scotland's blue-chip artists." ... Born in Falkirk in 1931, she studied and then taught at Edinburgh College of Art, before becoming the first woman elected to both the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Academy. Her work features at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Tate in London... Blackadder said she was glad prints from the Orchid series had been rediscovered but revealed the flower initially left her uninspired... "... orchids had never been my favourite flower," she said. "I'd always thought of them as too exotic and expensive. It was when the botanist at the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh talked to students and told us about them that I realised orchids are probably the biggest family of flowers in the world... I then became thoroughly fascinated with the idea of orchids." ... Trained in painting and drawing, she hadn't printed until McKechnie invited her and her husband John Huston, also a painter, to his studio 20 years ago. she said. "... I find it interesting to move to different media..." " URL : http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2140394.0.lost_dame_blackadder_artworks_found_at_bottom_of_drawer.php see the following page : http://www.nationalgalleries.org/index.php/whatson/on_the_wall/5:369/results/20/76401/ ************** Best regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
