We are pleased to confirm the presentation by Susie and Marcus Bicknell in London this Thursday… Wild Flowers of the French-Italian Alps and Clarence Bicknell’s arts-and-crafts water-colours. Win a Clarence Bicknell wildflower print! Date and time Thursday, October 17 · 2 – 4pm GMT+1 Location Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Sloane Street London SW1X 9BZ […]
Arthur Evans, Clarence Bicknell, and the rock engravings in the Maritime Alps by Graham Avery – October 2024 We are pleased to publish here the latest research paper by Graham Avery… “Immediately after his discovery of rock engravings in Val Fontanalba, Bicknell contacted the prehistorians Arthur Evans ( Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and
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This is a note from Selby Whittingham on Turner’s The Blue Rigi in a forthcoming book on Turner, which will also reproduce one of the Whaler pictures. It was bought off Turner by Clarence Bicknell’s father Elhanan in 1842, the year of Clarence’s birth at Herne Hill. “The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne – Sunrise
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The Clarence Bicknell Association announces a campaign to raise funds for the Woodland Trust from the sale of celebrity-signed prints of fine-art-reproduction watercolours by the Victorian polymath, botanist and artist Clarence Bicknell. This first announcement is an appeal … to retail outlets such as museum boutiques and art galleries where the prints could be put
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Some 40 eminent members of the Amici dei Giardini Botanici Hanbury visit London in May 2024 to see the Chelsea Flower Show. On this occasion they are invited by Marcus Bicknell to a dinner in their honour at the Garrick Club. There is considerable interest in the thetrical art collection of the Garrick but no
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May 2024, and our new online shop has just been launched. Click on Shop above. Browse a large selection of quality reproduction prints of the watercolours painted for his 1906 Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book. We have been so pleased with the warmth with which four celebrities have signed a batch of prints each, typically 10
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The Woodland Trust and the Clarence Bicknell Association announce a campaign to raise funds for the Woodland Trust from the sale of celebrity-signed prints of flower watercolours by the Victorian polymath, botanist and artist Clarence Bicknell. Our photos shows celebrities signing a limited number of the pictures novelist Frederick Forsyth in the company of supporter
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The Clarence Bicknell Association, the Woodland Trust UK https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk, writer Frederick Forsyth and broadcaster Clive Anderson, President of the Woodland Trust, have made a preliminary announcement of their joint campaign to raise several tens of thousands of pounds for the Woodland Trust’s objective to protect woods and trees, preventing the loss of irreplaceable habitat, nature and
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On 21st February 2024 I made a revision to the spreadsheet listing all the watercolours and the people who signed the Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book. The new version is at the same URL as before i.e. …https://old.clarencebicknell.com/wp-content/uploads/casa_fontanalba_visitors_books.xls. I needed an accurate list of all the watercolours in the book, where in the past I had
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Celebrated artist/sculptor Halima Cassell talks about her love of Clarence’s symmetrical botanical watercolours which are hidden away in the archive of the Fitzwillia m Museum in Cambridge University. Symmetry is a way of seeing nature adopted with such success by William de Morgan https://www.demorgan.org.uk/. https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/conversations/podcasts/in-my-minds-eye/a-simple-shape-repeated-halima-cassell Here is a gallery of photos taken in 2017 by
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