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Annette Marie Townsend

Natural History Artist | Designer | Maker

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I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been selected as a #collectopen2020 artist and will be exhibiting at the @craftscouncil #collect2020 international fair for modern craft and design. I’ll be creating one of the ambitious craft-lead installations, a display of handmade wildflower sculptures using traditional beeswax flower making techniques. Collect 2020 will take place @somersethouse from 27th Feb - 1st March 2020. If you’d like to follow my progress as a Collect Open 2020 artist, I’ll be posting regular updates about the production and installation of my artwork here and via my blog and email newsletters. #excitingtimes . . #sciart #scientificart #contemporarycraft #moderncraft #botanicalsculpture #beeswax #waxsculpture #curatedforcreatives @thedesigntrust

Here’s a new commission that I’m working on for the McArt lab in the Department of Entomology at @cornelluniversity It’s Bombus impatiens, the Common Eastern Bumble Bee. This image shows my initial drawing etched into the copper plate. #wip @cornelluniversitycals @cornellento

The very grand entrance to Paris House restaurant, Woburn Park. A collection of my new bumblebees have just been delivered and will be on display and for sale here over the autumn months. @parishousechef

Managed to fit in a quick visit to @vamuseum after a meeting today to experience the #ldf19 creative interventions and installations. So many great things to see... here’s just a few! . . #londondesignfestival

An incredibly kind #bbccountryfile viewer has given me their much loved but no longer used collection of wildflower books, after seeing me and my wax flowers on the South Wales episode in June. The books are beautiful - I am overjoyed to receive them and will cherish them for many years to come. . . #randomactsofkindness #wildflowers #botanicalillustration #bookcollection

Adding the finishing touches to my ‘Madge’ rose . . #waxsculpture #wip #commission #botanicalart #allthingsbotanical #ihavethisthingwithflowers #dsfloral

Here’s a video tour of a few pieces from my ‘For Safekeeping’ solo exhibition @walesbotanic. It ends this Sunday 8th September, so only two more days left if you’d like to visit in person.

I’m working on a few specially commissioned pieces at the moment. This is one of them.. I’ve been asked to make a pretty rose called ‘Madge’ which is also the name of my client’s mum, hence the strong sentimental association with the flower. It’s a rare variety, the clients live a good distance away and I couldn’t get a fresh flower to work from, so they’ve kindly sent me a beautiful pressed reference specimen in the post! #beeswax #waxsculpture #botanicalsculpture #commission

If you'd like to see more of the beeswax wild strawberry sculpture that I made earlier this year and find out about the PolliNation display at Cornell University, New York, have a look at the promotional video for the exhibition - the link is in my bio. I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be working on a new piece of collaborative art with Assistant Professor of Entomology, Dr Scott McArt, later on this year. Watch this space... more details to come!

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