Beatrice Parsons Watercolour ‘ Springtime Crocuses in St James Park, London’

Beatrice Parsons 1870-1955 was an exceptional English garden painter.She studied at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888-1899, but did not begin to paint floral/garden scenes until about 1900. Thereafter, her main body of her work was in painting garden scenes, primarily English but also abroad. She exhibited extensively in Dowdeswell and the Greatorex Galleries (some 22 solo exhibitions), illustrated several garden books, including the Gardens of England (1908) and The Charm of Gardens (1910) and some of her works feature in The Royal Collection-Queen Mary was a fan. When”the Queen of the blazing border” died the Times wrote: “As a painter of gardens in watercolour, Beatrice Parsons was probably unrivalled. Her special gift was perhaps the crisp and articulate touch in an inlay of colour which clearly defined the individual flowers without forcing them out of their context in the mass”. “Springtime Crocuses in St James Park,London” signed watercolour. A fine example of the artists work with good strong colours.