Flowers and plants have always been a popular choice for artists and visitors alike. Walsall’s collections contain many examples with contemporary artists using the subject matter to give a more political twist to what is perceived as a traditional subject.


This exhibition carefully selects artists who have been preoccupied with gardening and nature and our ‘taming’ of it. Their attraction to the sheer beauty of flowers and the natural world comes through in the extraordinary riots of colour and form expressed in many different mediums from the virtuoso Victorian painting of Primulas by Edith Elliot to the quiet understated stillness of Dod Proctors spring flowers.

In Conversation
Jo Digger, Peter Newton and Elin Morgan
A Gardeners View

Sunday 2 August, 2pm

Join us in an informal discussion about the Blooming Marvellous: The Art of Flowers. Gardening, flower arranging, painting, propagating and designing landscapes are just some of the areas covered.

Please reserve your free place in advance on 01922 65440


Image: 
Melanie Carvalho
Rhodroponicum, 2005
The New Art Gallery Walsall Collection

Melanie Carvalho, Rhodroponicum, 2005
Collage on paper, ink and watercolour
The New Art Gallery Walsall


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Blooming Marvellous Exhibition Guide

This exhibition guide presents a selection of artworks from Walsall's art collection which we hope will be enjoyed by art lovers and garden enthusiasts alike.

 


Echolalia Talk 30.11.00

Echolalia was featured in the 2000-2001 exhibition In Memoriam, and part of this piece is now on display in Blooming Marvellous. 

 

Echolalia is the alternative persona of Roxanne Permar, who gave this talk to a group of students at the time of In Memoriam.  She presents two pieces of her work and looks at the inspiration for her work, her initial ideas for it and the materials she used.