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Limited edition archival quality prints

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Heliamphora heterodoxa South American sun pitcher ©Jane Stark

Heliamphora heterodoxa South American sun pitcher ©Jane Stark

I am delighted to offer a strictly limited edition of ten double-mounted giclée prints of my painting of Heliamphora heterodoxa, which won a silver-gilt medal at the 2015 Botanical & Floral Art in Bloom Exhibition in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland. Each print is produced to the highest archival standards by The Copper House in Dublin, and comes with a hologrammed authentication certificate. The overall dimensions, including the mount, are 35.4 x 45.5cm  (14″ v 18″); image area measures 23.7 x 32.8cm (approx. 9.35″ x 13″).
No further prints of this painting will be made.

Price per print €120 plus postage and packing – please email me at laragan.hall@gmail.com for p&p rates, which will be charged at cost.
Payment by Paypal or bank transfer – please email for details.

Please note: The image above may not be reproduced in any printed form whatsoever without written permission from the artist as well as an appropriate credit line. If you wish to reproduce it on the internet, please include the above caption and credit line.

‘Jewels of Autumn’ Botanical Art Workshops

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A few places are still available for these two botanical art workshops being held in Moycullen, County Galway on Saturday 26 September and Saturday 24 October 2015. Even if you are a complete beginner, you are very welcome to come along and spend the day (10.00am – 4.00pm) painting some special autumnal subjects, such as chestnuts, blackberries, coloured leaves etc. Cost for one workshop is €40 per person, or €75 for both workshops.

Botanical Art Workshops Autumn 2015

Botanical Art at Claregalway Castle during Heritage Week 2015

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I’m delighted to be taking part in Heritage Week at Claregalway Castle this year. As botanical artist-in-residence, I will be working in the Farmhouse at the castle every afternoon (12.30 – 5.00) from Monday 24 – Friday 28 August inclusive. On Thursday 27 August, I am also giving a talk at 6.00pm in the lecture hall: Heritage of Irish Botanical Art from 1750 to the present. There is a small admission fee (€5: adult; €3: concession; child: free) for the talk, but there is no charge for visiting the Farmhouse to see my work in progress, as well as the exhibition of botanical paintings by several members of the Irish Society of Botanical Artists. If you are in the area, do drop by for a chat and a cup of tea. There will be some free handouts about botanical art, along with some beautiful botanical art books to browse through.

Heritage Week will be celebrated in many different ways at Claregalway Castle and there  is something for everyone. Dr Chris Doyle will be doing his fabulous tours of the castle every day during Heritage Week at 12.30, 1.30, 2.30 and 3.30 – no better way to learn more about the fascinating history of this sensitively restored castle. On Wednesday 26 August, Chris will also give a talk at 6.00pm about Cromwell’s siege of Claregalway Castle. If you are interested in medieval combat, there are demonstrations on Saturday the 22nd, along with archery displays and a children’s bow and arrow workshop. And the following weekend, Saturday 29 August. 6.00pm–10.30pm, there is a celebration of the life and work of Ciarán Bairéad (1905-76), and especially of his work as a folklore collector and recorder of Irish dialect in Claregalway, County Galway.

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BLOOM 2015

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Heliamphora heterodoxa Sun Pitcher by Jane Stark Silver-gilt award at Bloom 2015. Photo © Bernard van Giessen

Heliamphora heterodoxa Sun Pitcher by Jane Stark
Silver-gilt award at Bloom 2015.
Photo © Bernard van Giessen

Bloom In the Park is Ireland’s largest horticultural and food festival. For five days over the June bank holiday weekend, a portion of Dublin’s Phoenix Park is turned into a festive wonderland of gardens, floral displays, artisan food, entertainment and, for the last three years, the very best in Irish botanical and floral art. The 2015 Bloom Floral and Botanical Art Exhibition featured a total of 53 adjudicated paintings. That 21 of these paintings received awards was a testament to the high standard of the work in the exhibition.

The medal winners were as follows:

Category: BOTANICAL ART

Best in Show
Siobhan M Larkin – Iris

Gold Medals
Siobhan M Larkin – Iris
Shevaun Doherty – Phoenix dactylifera var. khasab Date palm
Nayana Sandur – Musa acuminata Banana

Silver Gilt Medals
Holly Somerville – Papaver rhoeas Field poppy
Jane Stark – Heliamphora heterodoxa Sun pitcher

Silver Medals
Shevaun Doherty – Aesculus hippocastanum triptych
Nayana Sandur – Malus cultivar Red Apple
Holly Somerville – Hippeastrum cultivar Amaryllis
Holly Somerville – Tulipa gesneriana Didier’s tulip
Patricia Jorgenson – Romneya coulteri Californian tree poppy
Siobhan M Larkin – Larix decidua (cones)
Lynn Stringer – Chrysanthemum ‘Salmon Shoesmith

Bronze Medals
Yanny Petters – Malus Apple
June Wright – Aesculus hippocastanum Horse-chestnut

Category – FLORAL ART

Best in Show
Yanny Petters – Meadow Plantain speedwell

Gold Medals
Yanny Petters – Meadow Plantain speedwell
Nayana Sandur – Allium aflatunese
Lynn Stringer – Primula vulgaris

Silver Gilt Medals
Anne McLeod – Delphiniums
Lynn Stringer – Narcissus ‘Cheerfulness’ Narcissi

Silver Medals
Nicola Lynch Morrin – Iris

Bronze Medals
Sue van Coppenhagen – Hellebores

I felt very honoured to be included amongst the award winners, receiving a silver-gilt for my Heliamphora heterodoxa, a sun pitcher from the Guiana Highlands of South America, belonging to the carnivorous plant family Sarraceniaceae. Whilst working on this painting, I became fascinated by carnivorous plants, and I look forward to painting more of them.