Drawings of desert plants and cacti by Katherine Tyrrell
| My drawings of desert plants focus on what cacti and succulents - look like in 'close-up' - as a macro. These drawings grew out of a project to study the work and approaches employed by Georgia O'Keefe which you can read about  here coupled with a very stimulating visit to the deserts of the southwestern states of the USA (California, Arizona and New Mexico) in 2006 (see USA Sketchbook - Southwestern States)Works have been regularly exhibited at
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Tombstone Agave (30cmx20cm) coloured pencils on Arches HP
Nopal de Cerro (Opuntia lasiacantha)
Exhibited Society of Botanical Artists 2016
Gymnocalycium capillaense – in flower
Grey, green and pink in Yuma (10" x 8", CP on Arches HP). Exhibited: California, Nov. 2010; Society of Botanical Artists April 2015 ('Hon. Mention' in the Strathmore Artists Papers Award - for 'Innovative Composition')
'Echevaria Laui'- selected for Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2015
Tesselation #2 (Agave Victoriae) 20cm x 20cm
coloured pencils on Fabriano Artistico, exhibited Florum 2014
Aloe (7"x10" coloured pencils)
Exhibited San Diego, California (2010)
Triangulation
Selected for the Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2011 (Westminster)
Neoregelia Scarlet Charlotte (sold)
(coloured pencils) Exhibited Society of Botanical Artists 2012
Rosette
Selected for the Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2011 (Westminster)
Who forgot the sun block? (8"x8" coloured pencil on Arches HP)
Prickly Pear Profile (7" x5" coloured pencils on Arches HP)
Aeonium "Zwartkop" (30x20cm coloured pencil on Arches HP)
exhibited at Mission Trails Art Gallery, San Diego, California
Shades of grey and blue (8" x 8" coloured pencils)
exhibited at Mission Trails Art Gallery, San Diego, California (Nov.2010)
Cacti Networking (8x8" coloured pencil on Arches HP)
exhibited at Mission Trails Art Gallery, San Diego, California
Tesselation (8x8" coloured pencil on HP)
Selected for the Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2011 (Westminster);
Exhibited Mission Trails Art Gallery, San Diego, California (Nov. 2010)
Sea Thistle (8"x10") coloured pencil on Arches HP
Cactus in jade and crimson (8"x10") coloured pencils on Arches HP
Cactus #2 (30x20cm coloured pencil on black Arches cover)
Tombstone Agave (30cmx20cm) coloured pencils on Arches HP
Nopal de Cerro (Opuntia lasiacantha)
Exhibited Society of Botanical Artists 2016
| Seven works (see right) were exhibited at the Mission Trails Art Gallery in San Diego, California in November 2010 |  |
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