Strawberries and Bees Canvas Print

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The original is a watercolor and ink pen painting on Saunders Waterford 638g/m2 (300lb) watercolor 100% cotton paper from St Cuthberts Mills The 'No Bees - No ...' series is a series of paintings highlighting the importance of bees to our daily life. Without them many of our most important foods would become unavailable. No apples, cherries, almonds, lemons, blueberries, strawberries ... the list is long. In fact strictly speaking strawberries don't need bees but without bees the yield would be much lower and the fruit would be smaller and not as tasty. Original paper size is 29.5 cm x 21 cm.

These prints will look best on the matte papers, especially the cold press watercolor, rather than the glossy papers or other options.

Petra is a professional Artist, born in Germany now living in Menorca, Spain. She went to the Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design in Ireland were she completed the Foundation course in 1985. Then went on to the NCAD in Dublin, Ireland where she gained my BA (Fine Art) with honours in 1989. From then on she traveled around Europe, living in Italy, Spain and Portugal and coming back to Ireland in 2000 for 5 years and on to Germany again for 12 years. Exhibitions in all the places, solo and group. In 2012, she visited Menorca for the first time and moved there in 2018. Her 'little paradise' is how she puts it. Her works are in collections in the USA and Europe and China. For a good while now she has been mainly using...