This month we are serving up a fabulous trio of local Bath artists who, using a variety of materials and techniques, are united in their love of landscape and the creatures and plants that make it their home.

Bathscape Manager Dan Merrett starts us off in the Victoria Art Gallery with a history tour of artists who have painted the Bath landscape since 1730.

Jessica Palmer shows us round her first ever solo exhibition in the Victoria Art Gallery - free to visit until 11th April 2023. Jessica's clients include Disney Pixar and English Heritage. In her exhibition entitled Wetland Spring, she uses watercolour and paper cutting to bring the wetlands to life and show us the many varied creatures that live within this unique and important habitat.

Perry Harris is a cartoonist and landscape artist using paint and digital colour to bring Bath to life. He loves to paint his favourite landscapes including Primrose Hill, The Cotswold Way and Smallcombe Vale. He persuades me to climb up to the top of the tower of the Royal High School where he works to be interviewed!

Our final artist is Marian Hill who is an illustrator. She produces beautiful posters of bugs and butterflies, minibeasts and pollinators. With the expert help of local entomologist Mike Williams, she works painstakingly to create accurate as well as stunning work using collage. She has worked closely with Bathscape and local schools.

You can see contemporary artists' works around trees and landscape this summer at the Forest of Imagination which will run from the 14th June 2023 at the Assembly Rooms in Bath.

Thanks go to The National Lottery Heritage Fund and players of the National Lottery who fund the work of Bathscape.

Links

Jessica Palmer: www.jessicapalmerart.com

Twitter: @JessCutitout

Perry Harris: www.bath.co.uk/spotlight/perry-harris-artist-illustrator

Twitter: @Uhperry

Marian Hill: www.marianhill.co.uk

Twitter: @hill_marian

Victoria Art Gallery, Bridge Street, Bath BA2 4AT

www.bathscape.co.uk

www.naturalbristol.wordpress.com

Credits

Music: Audionautix

Produced by: Pommy Harmar