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C.R. Gill Art
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Nonbinary Artist (they/them)
Ottawa, Canada
https://www.crgillart.com
Instagram: @catalyst_artworks
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Water soluble encaustic painting of orchids for sale at Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario, until Dec 20th.

Online sale page: clinehousegallery.com/product/c-r-...

#botanicalart #bloomsky #painting
Painting of a stem of pink orchids and buds cascading down a black background.
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Whohoo, online sales are finally up! This pitcher plant painting is for sale at Cline House Gallery until Dec 20th.

Sales link: clinehousegallery.com/product/c-r-...

#botanicalart #bloomsky #painting
Water soluble encaustic painting of a cluster of pitcher plant leaves and flowers in different stages of life.
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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This chicken-of-the-woods mushroom painting is for sale now at Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario.

#botanicalart #fungi #painting
A painting of a cluster of chicken of the woods mushrooms. They are overlapping, shelf shaped, polypores with deep orang moving to yellow at the scalloped edges.
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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These are at the Cline House Gallery in Cornwall, Ontario, from November 6th to December 20th. Vernissage November 6th at 7pm.

#botanicalart #mushrooms #fungi #flowers #bloomsky
Five square paintings of fungi and flowers on black backgrounds. Pitcher plants, chocken of the woods, jack o'lantern mushrooms, ghost pipes, and orchids.
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Today was probably the ladt time this season I'll be sketching outside. Still staring at trees.

#sketch #trees
Pencil sketch of a cluster of cedar tree trunks on a lake shore.
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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The final piece for cline house gallery. Pitcher plant from my trip to newfoundland this summer.

#botanicalart #bloomsky
Water soluble encaustic painting of a pitcher plant with its red and green leaves at different stages of opening up and becoming insect death traps. Several flowers and a bud grow up from the cluster of leaves.
October 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Pencil crayon Amaryllis by Heather A Clemenson #botanicalart
Pencil crayon drawing of a red amaryllis with white rays extending from the center of the petals. An unopened bud is drawn beside it.
October 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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How the fuck is this done in watercolor painting?? Close-up of watercolor painting of pussywillows by Rosalind Allchin. Botanical artists are badass. #botanicalart
Close-up of pussy willows catkins done in watercolor which look like real living plants even when I get really close.
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Milkweed by Ruth Tait
#botanicalart
Watercolor painting of milkweed in various stages of flowering and producing seeds and being eaten by bugs.
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Watercolor painting by Rosalind Allchin. Blue flag iris seed pods. #botanicalart
A large watercolor painting of dried out seed pods surrounded by dead leaves. That doesn't explain the depth of colours in the browns or the movement in the composition. Beautiful.
October 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Watercolor by Peg Duncan @pegduncan.bsky.social

#botanicalart
A large watercolor painting of a peach rose laying on its side as seen from the base of the bloom.
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Oil painting by Kerri Weller

#botanicalart
A cascade of purple bearded irises. Oil painting.
October 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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In person, this one practically glows. Chinese Lantern by Rosalind Allchin

#botanicalart
Watercolor painting of a single chinese lantern on a stem with brown whithered leaves.
October 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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White siberian Irises by Jan Salmon

#botanicalart
A cascade of white irises under an arch. Pencil crayon on black paper.
October 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Ostrich Fern Fiddlehead by Suzanne Palmer
A graphite drawing of an unfolding fern overlayed with a pencil crayon drawing of the same fern as a fiddlehead. It is framed with a matte showing three windows where the drawing shines through.
October 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Finished the chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms paiting from the plein air reference.

#fungi #botanicalart #painting #watersolubleencaustic #mushrooms
Shelf shaped, flat, mushrooms stacked on and around each other that start orange at the base and move to yellow feathered edges.
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Poster for "plants that nurture body and soul". A beautiful water colour painting of a rose laying on it's side. Gallery 200, the school of dance. 200 chrichton street, ottawa, ontario, second floor. 3 October 2025 to 3 March 2026. Vernissage 16 October 2025, 5:30 to 7:30pm.
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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OSBA group show: Plants That Nurture Body and Soul

Gallery 200 at The School of Dance, 200 Crichton St. 2nd Floor, Ottawa

Vernissage - Thursday, October 16th, 5:30-7:30pm

Exhibition - October 3rd, 2025 - March 3rd, 2026. Hours: Mon-Thurs. 10am-8pm, Fri. 10am-4pm
A painting of two yellow chanterelle mushrooms with a wax sculpture of those same mushrooms attached to the lower right corner. Peachy pink wrinkled peach mushrooms in various stages of life are painted and sculpted on a black wooden support with a patern of the beatle tracks that killed the tree.
October 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Water soluble encaustic paintings Oil paintings display.
October 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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From SSO Open House: natural pigment and cyanotype art by Susan Robertson-Baranick
A wall of various abstract and nature art made of pigments and cyanotype materials exposed to uv or the sun and from local materials.
October 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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From the SSO Open House: pottery by Celine Floyd
A table full of textured pottery sculptues and stickers. One looks like a fried egg, another like a clown face, and a bunch like dishes. Many have lots of textures that you are encouraged to touch.
October 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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From the SSO Open House: art by Heidi Conrod
A series of small colourful collage paintings.
October 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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From the SSO Open Studio: painting by Yomi Orminoloye
Painting of faces done in an abstract cubist pieced together manner where they overlap.
October 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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From the SSO Open studio: massive oil painting by Peter Cunningham
An absolute unit of a painting of the front end of a life-sized train in blues and bronzes.
October 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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From the SSO Open House: painting by Anyu Sun
Bright multi-colored painting of a jaguar person encircled by its extra long tail as it dances or climbs.
October 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM