A painting or encaustic artwork entitled “Pollination”.
| Entrant ID: | 1042567 | Entrant Name: | Gill Brewer |
| Description: | “Pollination” A watercolour painting of a honeybee Apis mellifera foraging on Phacelia tanacetifolia. Phacelia is increasingly popular both as a green manure and in seed mixes planted for pollinators. The flowers are purply-blue, a favourite colour of bees. As a forager moves from flower to flower, pollen sticking to the bee’s hairy body is transferred from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another, pollinating the flower. The characteristic dark-blue pollen can often be seen carried on the legs of foragers returning to the hive and stored in brood combs as food for the bees. |
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| Entrant ID: | 1045105 | Entrant Name: | Beverley Underwood |
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‘POPPY POLLINATION’ I CHOSE A ‘POPPY’ AS THE INSPIRATION OF THIS ENCAUSTIC ARTWORK AS REMEMBERANCE DAY HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC RESTRICTIONS. ITS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THIS YEAR THAT WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE SACRIFICED THEMSELVES TO SECURE AND PROTECT US THE ARTWORK WAS PRODUCED USING BEESWAX FROM OUR OWN HIVES, MELTED DOWN WITH VARIOUS COLOUR WAXES. ON SMALL CANVASS BOARD I APPLIED THE WAXES USING A VARIETY OF BRUSHES, SCAPERS & A HEATED ‘MINI IRON’
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: |
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The Exhortation