Julia Trickey, whose botanical watercolours have won numerous awards including 4 RHS gold medals, has illustrated three sets of pictorial stamps featuring wild flowers of Great Britain for Royal Mail's Post & Go series. The prints reproduced in this collection demonstrate the author's penetrating knowledge of plant form and deep understanding of the interplay of light and colour, resulting in images that are vibrant with life and redolent of the emotional connection we all have with our national wild flowers. An experienced tutor as well as an artist, Julia describes the processes by which...

Get up close to the beauty and detail of nature through the artwork of award-winning UK artist, Julia Trickey. See how ordinary and sometimes overlooked subjects, such as leaves and fading flowers, can be centre stage and come to life in this beautiful showcase of some of Julia's best-loved botanical watercolours. Having been a tutor of botanical art for many years, teaching as far afield as Moscow and New York, Julia loves to help others explore the potential of watercolour and to discover the keys to a good botanical portrait. In this book she shares some of these insights as well as the...