Spring

It is a general consensus here at TROWBRIDGE that we could all do with the summer arriving, sooner rather than later. Today gives us a glimmer of hope as it is the first day of Spring and although we haven’t had any blue skies, it at least has warmed a little since last week’s snow.

I love this time of year. The evenings get lighter, the air is warm and my long weekend walks shift from being a muddy ice trek to just ambling through the woods taking in all the sights and smells of a new season. I am already noticing the wild flowers peeping through the grasses amongst the trees which are also starting to turn. Add lambs bouncing around the fields and you have my perfect Spring image.

Our new Agapathus Wood collection by the ever wonderful Amanada Ross also takes hold of the spirit of spring and illustrates it beautifully.

These exquisite purple and blue wild flower prints by the English artist are derived from her inspiration of the countryside around her. The life-like quality of her work is achieved through printing directly from cuttings of her carefully selected flowers.

Amanda uses inks and a variety of templates made from the cuttings and transfers these images onto fabrics. Because each piece is unique, the resulting collections evoke the many faces of nature; from structured, ordered, simplicity to wild chaos.  The Agapanthus Wood collection has a feel of wild chaos, typical of the countryside in spring.

TROWBRIDGE prints this collection on Somerset Velvet fine art watercolour paper and the series of 4 fine art giclee reproductions of her original works are of a Limited Edition of 295, each one is signed by Amanda herself.

Amanda’s collection of four Blue Garden pieces and four Taupe Allium are also stunningly detailed and make wonderful additions to the TROWBRIDGE Botanical collection.

I hope that looking at these pretty floral images has sufficiently helped you move out of the winter mind set, it has me.

Charlee