ARTIST FEATURE - CAROLINE JAMFREY

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CAROLINE JAMFREY

Caroline Jamfrey is a botanical artist who captures plants in gorgeous detail, with technical accuracy and a celebration of their beauty. A member of the Society of Botanical Artists, she draws and paints from life, everywhere from her own garden to the commons around her home; her pieces recording the delicacy, colour and texture of our natural world.

As you'd expect from a botanical artist, Caroline's work has a beautiful attention to detail. Each piece contains an absolute reality, and yet the artist's hand is present, and her voice comes through in each brush stroke; from the fluidity of the line in her grasses to her perfectly balanced colours. She is able to depict the technicalities of petals, stems and leaves without losing a sense of their movement or their weight, and each flower or grass or vegetable or even exposed section of ground has its own texture and mark.

Caroline's pieces act as a record of her seeing. Currently working on a long-term project to paint the flowering plants of Rodborough Common in Stroud over the period of one year, supported by The Society of Botanical Artists' fellows grant scheme, her work is taking a focus on documenting and preserving the nature she finds around her through her own artistic lens. Alongside this work, she has previously worked on pieces describing groups of cultivated plants. Utilising strong design and choosing plants for their colour and form, they celebrate the vibrancy and beauty of her subjects.

Despite working in a traditional and long-beloved style - botanical drawings can be traced back to the Egyptians, were utilised by the Greeks, can be found all over China and India and made popular throughout the 18th Century across the world and especially in Europe - Alongside her technique, Caroline brings her own unique eye to her compositions. She selects a very purposeful view, often with a very delicate tapering at the edges; she concerns herself with composition but without interrupting the believability.

We were lucky enough to have Caroline's beautiful piece " Autumn Flora From The Catalan Pyrenees" in our Collective exhibition at the gallery in January, a painting which won an award for botanical merit at Plantae 2025, the Society of Botanical Artists' exhibition. To find more of Caroline's work, head over to her portfolio and keep up with her Rodborough Common project over on her Instagram!

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