New Work for the Sherwood Collection
A large work of a tall bearded iris, depicting flowers, leaves and root in situ, has been acquired in 2006, by the Sherwood Collection. Watch these pages for details of the first showing of this unique work.
Website Updates 2008
The newly designed website http://www.coralguest.com/ featuring recent work, is now launched. This site is a celebration of Coral's 25th year as a as a practicing flower painter and shows her study work as well as large format paintings and other new works.
Tokyo 2006
Two works from the Shirley Sherwood Contemporary Art Collection were shown at Seiji Tojo Museum in Tokyo, in the summer of 2006. Works include Rosa 'Alba Maxima', and Lapageria alba with Lapageria rosea. Botanical Art is becoming popular in Japan, and fourty thousand visitors passed through the gates.
About Me
- Coral Guest
- Coral Guest was raised in north west London and studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, specialising in abstraction and colour theory. She was awarded both the Drawing Prize and the Chelsea Travel Scholarship. Her life size paintings of plants, which she describes as truth to nature, have since evolved to become some of the most ground breaking of the genre, fuelling the recent renaissance of Botanical Art in Europe. Perhaps most well known for her paintings and drawings of white flowers, her work captures the essential spirit of plant life by describing natural beauty in natural light. In 2004 she was invited by BBC Wales to participate in the TV documentary series Painting Flowers, in which she is filmed working on a watercolour of the iconic white lily. Her paintings and drawings are represented in major public and private collections of botanical art, including the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library, the Shirley Sherwood Collection of Contemporary Botanical Art, the Hunt Botanic Institute, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
