And I saw Solomon’s Seal
ENDELLION LYCETT GREEN
Throughout her prolific 28 year career, Endellion Lycett Green has found nature to be a constant source of inspiration and is well known for her bold, sensuous paintings focused on plant life, ’my work is a life long homage to plants’.
This new body of work will be Endellion’s first solo show in 10 years and will celebrate the breadth of her botanical art. Her characteristic large-scale paintings, which lean towards subtle abstraction in their celebration of form and colour, will sit alongside a series of intricate botanical studies painted in homage to the nineteenth-century celebrated artist Pierre-Joseph Redoute, ‘the Raphael of flowers’.
The exhibition will include a series of large-scale oil paintings inspired by the ethereal beauty of the water meadows at Thyme, which make up a third of the estate. Endellion spent time painting in these meadows during the Summer of 2023. In her work, she captures the living tapestry of this special space, which has been a conservation project run by Caryn Hibbert, Founder and Creative Director of Thyme, for the past 20 years. With a focus on rejuvenating the indigenous flora and fauna, this has become an important bio-diverse habitat. Works painted at Thyme will draw on an ecological perspective, as Endellion celebrates the renaissance of previously endangered species, such as the wild orchid, which is now prolific in the meadows on the estate.