the power of colour
Painters have always been drawn to gardens. As artists select paints for their canvas, gardeners choose their seeds, bulbs and plants. Both use colour to create their atmosphere and mood. Whether pastoral calm with cool, muted colours and deep receptive greens or more simulating and exciting brilliant reds and oranges. To the deep, rich, clarets.
Planned carefully, colour can be a constant feature of your garden, bringing immense joy and inspiration.
This has been the basis of Sarah’s garden at Perch Hill in Sussex and of all her flower-arranging, border plans and pot collections over the last 30 years
the art of dahlias
In early September Alice Boggis-Rolfe painted the wonderful dahlia beds at Perch Hill and this is the result.
A Basket of Dahlias in Sarah Raven’s Greenhouse by Alice Boggis-Rolfe
Oil on canvas, 64 x 49cm (framed), 51 x 36cm (without frame)
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about the artist
Born in 1990, Alice Boggis-Rolfe is a figurative painter. Her subject matter veers from vast open landscapes to quiet, intimate interiors and still-lifes. She spent her twenties travelling the world with her paints, holding exhibitions back in London between trips. Her practice has since evolved into carefully constructed studio work using a broad palette, interspersed with bouts of the plein air painting she still adores.
Alice trained at Chelsea College of Art and Heatherley's School of Fine Art. She has since held six sell-out solo exhibitions in London some of which sold out in a matter of hours. Aside from these she exhibits regularly with the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Her work has received numerous awards such as the Winsor & Newton First Prize for a Young Artist and The William Sloane Medal and in 2019 she was both shortlisted and highly commended for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize and De Laszlo Award. In 2017, Alice took part in the Television series Landscape Artist of the Year reaching the final three out of thousands of contestants nationwide. Alice lives in Gloucestershire with her husband Harry, her daughter Artemis and her beloved terrier, Gypsy
