Helen Brough

Dahlia Blue, Contemporary Art, Floral Art, Colourful Print, Statement Art

2021

Part of a series of four mixed media paintings which include watercolour, acrylics, drawing and collage. These are based on the sumptuous colours, textures and forms of dahlias. My a...

The sumptuous colours of dahlias are the inspiration for this series of four mixed media paintings I have tried to convey the shapes, forms and textures of this beautiful late summer...

The sumptuous colours and shapes of dahlias are the inspiration for this new series of paintings I paint my response to the shapes, colours and textures so that the result is organic...

Blue agapanthus and hemerocallis, acrylic on linen canvas The dahlia season, acrylic on linen canvas In artist Mary Chaplin’s garden there are many perennial plants including geraniu...

Artist: Melanie Greene, American Title: Summer (Blue Corsage) Year: 1979 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Chiura Obata Dahlias, 1940 Signed, dated and stamped lower right Watercolor on paper 15 x 9 5/8 inches Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto. In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism. He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928. Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...

The painting "Golden Chrysanthemums" belongs to the decorative series. It is slightly abstract with lots of additional graphic elements. This picture clearly shows the influence of t...

'Dahlia on Ink' 2024 Cotton canvas print from limited edition of 5. (Does not come with streatch bars, only canvas print) Black and white floral film photography combination with...