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Yanny Petters (1961, Enniskerry,
Co. Wicklow) has been painting exquisitely detailed studies
of wild plants for the past 20 years. Fascinated by colour,
form and detail, her love and interest in botanical art
stemmed from her work as a signwriter where plant themes
were common in decorative design and the work included
Trompe l'oeil techniques. As well as working in
oils and watercolours Yanny also specialises in 'painting
on glass (or "verre églomisé', a technique she has been developing since her
signwriting years. Click here
to view yanny's description of the history & technique
of "verre églomisé" (as well as a demo) on
You tube.
Recent Exhibitions: Group and Solo
2010 Dublin Painting and
Sketching Club's 132nd Annual
Exhibition, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Click here
to
see
review by Irish Times Art Critic Aidan Dunne.
2008 "Fieldwork"
Riverside gallery, Bridgewater Centre,
Arklow (Co. Wicklow), solo show organised and
curated by Olliart
2007 RHA open
submission
2006 Airfield House,
Dundrum , Co. Dublin solo
2006 Cherrylane,
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
2006 RHA open
submission
2005 The Tramyard Gallery,
Dalkey, County Dublin solo
2005 L’Art Pour
Tous, Contemporary Art Fair, Cannes,
France
2005 Greystones Arts
Festival, County Wicklow
2005
Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey, Ireland, Women Artists
2005
Ashmolean, Oxford, England, ‘A New
Flowering”
1000
years of botanical art. Dr.Shirley Sherwood
Collection
"Summer Snow at the Sally Gap"
Verre Eglomisé (set
of 6):
"Slender St. John's
"Devilsbit Scabious"
"Bird's
foot-trefoil"
"Self Heal"
"White clover"
"Red clover"
2004
Art Ireland (with Olliart), Royal Dublin Society,
Dublin
2004 Cherrylane,
Greystones, Co. Wicklow
2004
Tramyard, Dalkey, Co. Dublin
2004 Form in Mind
Exhibition in Loughrea, Co. Galway
2004
Group Show, Glencree Reconciliation Centre,
Co.
Wicklow.
2003
Christmas Exhibition, Metatron Art Gallery,
Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow
2003
“The Living Bog.” Two person show with Michael
Gemmell at the Davis Gallery, Dublin
2002 Red Dot Artists
group, in association with the
Chelsea Flower Show.
2002
Plants with Healing Properties, Cúdos Art Centre,
Mount
Usher, Co.Wicklow. solo
2002
Nuts and Berries Gusto Cafe, in association with
the
Wexford Opera Festival. solo
Heathland in
Summer
Heathland in Winter
"Burren Meadow"
Awards/Commissions:
2005 Abbey Theatre,
Importance of Being Earnest, flower
design
lamps with Fiona Coffey
2005 Connemara National
Park, commission painting on
glass of
section of Bog.
2003 Office of Public Works,
paintings for Wicklow
Mountains
National Park centre at Kilafin,
Co. Wicklow.
1999 Mural for Brandon House Hotel, Swimming Pool,
Co. Wexford .
1994 Designed scale models of a famine village and
workhouse
for 'Model World', an outdoor
Historical
Ireland
project in Newtownmountkennedy,
Co.
Wicklow.
1987 Islington Borough Council design award.
1979 European Schools Award Prize for Art.
Collections:
Dr.
Shirley Sherwood Collection, UK
Byrne Group, Greystones, Co. Wicklow,
OPW, Wicklow Mountains
National Park,
Private collections.
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