
Artist: Botanicals
Nettie Bascomb Brown
"Botanicals are my passion! Plants that feed the bees, ancient plants, nature's medicine, wild foods are all pressed or impressed in my art"​
Nettie Bascomb Brown is a botanical artist creating bas-relief botanicals impressions in plaster and concrete. Moving with the seasonal changes in colours and light, the varied forage for the bees and pollinators and the breath-taking Wiltshire landscape are inspirations for her work.
More about Nettie Bascomb Brown
Nettie is a botanical artist working from her home studio in the Vale of Pewsey.
Since moving to Pewsey, Nettie has been involved in the theatre as a playwright, director and set designer, as an archaeologist at Blick Mead in the Stonehenge landscape and she is an experienced beekeeper. All these elements have inspired her artwork - moving with the seasonal changes in colours and light, the varied forage for the bees and pollinators and the breath-taking Wiltshire landscape.
Originally working in mixed media using watercolours, acrylics and incorporating natural plants in her work, Nettie has now introduced a new medium using clay and plaster, known as ‘bas - relief’, an ancient method used by botanists to record the finest details of plant species.
She was inspired to experiment with highly ‘textured’ art on learning that her brother in law, a keen gardener and nature lover was rapidly losing his sight. Nettie has gone on to develop a unique way to produce these panels in concrete for either interior or exterior display.

