This Precious Moment
'Votive Offerings - This Precious Moment' is an artwork I have created to celebrate 10 years since I set up my studio at Ladybank Railway Station. It consists of a series of watercolour paintings of small wild flower posies. I'll be showing them as an installation of...
Open Studios 4th, 5th and 6th May 2019
Open Studios 4th, 5th and 6th May 2019Kirsty Lorenz - Artist Studio, Platform 2, Ladybank Railway StationOpen 10am - 6pm every day, FREE - ALL WELCOME. I hope you'll be able to join me at my Open Studios event. This year I have created a special artwork to celebrate...
‘Willow, ease my pain’
This is my first completed composition exploring the theme of 'Plants, Medicine and Magic'. It is graphite and watercolour on paper, aprox 50x50cm. It shows a willow circle filled with Winter Aconite flowers.Willow contains salicylic acid which is the basis of asprin....
Plants, Medicine and Magic at Falkland Palace
Thanks to National Trust of Scotland and the Head Gardener at Falkland Palace I am going to be able to access the plants in their beautiful Physic Garden over the next few years. It contains over 50 Rennaissance-era plants that would have been used medicinally,...
The Making of ‘Votive Offering No.65’
Balmerino woods are on the edge of the Tay, opposite the city of Dundee. It is a special place and has beautiful spring flowers that inspired me to make a series of 'Votive Offerings' there. The top photograph shows the whole series of posies I made, and left...
Weekly Art Class – Places Available
I have a couple of spaces available in my weekly art classes next term. I run two classes per week during school term time, both on a Wednesday. Next term runs from 24th April until 26th June. Details as follows:Wednesday Morning Class, 10.30am to 12.30pm Beginners...
Spring Flowers on Exhibition at Tolquhoun Gallery
My paintings of posies of wild flowers I made (and left) in Balmerino Woods in springtime are currently, and aptly, in the 'Spring Exhibition' at Tolquhoun Gallery near Aberdeen. Set in beautiful rural surroundings many of the flowers that I painted will soon also be...
Kitchen Garden Votives in Edinburgh Exhibition
I am delighted to have 'Kitchen Garden Votives' included in the Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition at the RSA Galleries, The Mound, Edinburgh. This is an installation of 9 paintings of posies made up of vegetable and herb flowers. The paintings are all true...
Royal Scottish Watercolour Society Annual Exhibition
Pleased to have this little painting included currently in the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society Annual Exhibition at the RSA Galleries, The Mound, Edinburgh. Exhibition runs until 13th December.This painting is 'Votive Offering No.60 - Heartsease, Eyebright and...
New Beginners Art Class with Kirsty Lorenz
I am starting a new Beginners Art Class, please see the information below. (I also have one space available in my ongoing Intermediate Art Class on a Wednesday morning, please contact me directly about this if you think it might be of interest). New Beginners Art...
Featured in Homes and Interiors Magazine
'Power of the Flower' Excellent feature article in the July/August 2018 Issue of Homes and Interiors Scotland Magazine. Click here for a PDF
The Blessing of the Rain Catalogue
Online catalogue and list of works available for my exhibition 'The Blessing of the Rain' at The Scottish Gallery - click HERE.