Brigid EDWARDS

Brigid Edwards almost always paints her watercolours on smooth, prepared vellum and, like many botanical artists, she works very slowly. As she has stated, ‘A large painting (and I mean volume and painted area as opposed to large but unpainted surface) can take up to twelve weeks to complete.’ Drawn in 1999, the present sheet depicts the species of flowering plants, native to South Africa, familiarly known as Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia caulescens), with flowers that open as a deep coral-red and change to a light lemon-yellow between late summer and mid-autumn.