Tina Bone AssocSBA
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Artist Name: Tina Bone AssocSBABiography
Galleries, Memberships & affiliations:
Society of Botanical Artists (SBA)
BirdingArt (BirdingArt.com)
Marwell International Wildlife Art Society (MIWAS)
The Natural World Art Group (NWAG)
The Wildlife Art Society International (TWASI)
Association of Animal Artists (AAA)
Society of All Artists (SAA)
National Exhibition of Wildlife Art (NEWA)
Whitepeaks Art Gallery, Derbyshire
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The Tavern Gallery, Meldreth, Nr Royston
Darryl Nantais Gallery, Linton, Cambs
Picturecraft Gallery, Holt, Norfolk
Saatchi Gallery Online (Saatchi)
Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve (card sales)(Paxton Pits)
Cambridge Natural History Society (CNHS)
The Wildlife Trusts (WildlifeTrusts)
The National Trust (NationalTrust)
The RSPB (RSPB)
Haddenham Conservation Society (HCS)
National Farmers Union (NFU)
I was told I could draw by my teacher (Miss Treleven) when I was just seven: she had entered my ‘Fairy Queen' painting into a children's local art competition and I remember winning a big box of paints and brushes; and, at age eleven, whilst on holiday in Italy I was asked to paint a picture on canvas to replace a wooden wall painting of Madonna and Child which had burned during street celebrations – I spent my six weeks' holiday, in my Aunty's best room, painting.
After leaving school at 15 with no qualifications, a string of secretarial jobs which I hated (including training for the GPO as a telephonist), I married in 1967 at the tender age of 17, having become engaged on my sixteenth birthday. In order to keep up with the needs of my husband and three sons, I elected to work self-employed from home. Over the next 35 years I periodically purchased state-of-the-art publishing equipment and computer programmes to produce camera ready artwork for local publishers and organisations. The continual deadlines of publishing finally took their toll and in 2005 I decided to ‘retire' from the publishing world. I spent my life savings to buy the latest equipment (of the day!), including a large format professional printer, so that I could produce my own limited edition prints and other saleable products in my own studio.
My secret desire had always been to paint professionally, so, though self-taught, I took the plunge and turned professional artist in March 2005. My favourite subjects are natural history (especially common British birds) and botanical illustration. Recently I followed a course at the University of Cambridge to learn the art of illuminated lettering, using gesso and gold leaf to produce stunning effects on highly decorated lettering, following designs from the old craftsmen as far back as the sixth century AD.
My childhood love of nature has been re-kindled since planting in 2004 a small ‘wild' garden (20ft x 20ft) to provide live subjects. The little garden has been most successful with visits from many birds, frogs, newts, toads and all manner of insects. We have a resident hedgehog and wood mice. Black and grey squirrels also visit and ‘nick' the bird seed.
Wherever possible, I paint life-size using live specimens, or make up compositions from photographs I have taken myself or supplied by family and friends, and from ‘delights' experienced during field trips - always aiming to compose and paint realistic images to capture the characteristics and nuances of flora and fauna.
I have always been self-employed in desktop publishing, but in March 2005, changed career to realise a lifelong ambition to become a professional artist - and have not looked back!
Subjects mainly include natural history (especially birds) and botanical illustration, but commissions have been varied, including an artists impression of a 2010 Chelsea Flower Show Garden, pet portraits, a stationery engine, and illuminated lettering with gold leaf. Saleable products include unique limited edition prints, open edition prints, posters, handcrafted calendars, cards, postcards, diaries, notebooks, puzzles, and bookmarks. These are only available through me by telephone or by email, and at some exhibitions and displays in which I participate.
In 2011 I have been invited by a world-famous author from Cambridge University to co-author a coffee-table book for which I am writing 10,000 words and providing all the illustrations.
To view other published work and awards, please visit: http://www.tinabonedtp.co.uk/Page2hPubsCerts.html
The extensive fieldwork for the new book has limited the number of exhibitions I have been able to attend this year, but these have included: BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year, Association of Animal Artists, Natural World Art Group, The Wildlife Art Society International, National Exhibition of Wildlife Art, and Marwell International Wildlife Art Society. I have also been invited to exhibit at the St Mary's Church Christmas Exhibition, Comberton and the Tavern Gallery Christmas Exhibition, Meldreth, Cambs.
Exhibitions
I have joined a world-renowned botanist to co-author a book, for which I will produce all the artwork, and help with the supply of photographs and case-study text. The fieldwork and research involved in producing this book is extensive and time-consuming. However, exhibitions and shows to which I hope to submit work are listed here. (TB)
FEBRUARY: The BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012.
FEBRUARY: Show me the Monet 2012 (submitted application upon receipt of email from TV company). Submission dates 9th December 2011 to 8th January 2012 (or when 3000 applications have been received).
MARCH-APRIL (EASTER): Thursday 22nd March to Wednesday 18th April: Picturecraft Art Gallery and Exhibition Centre, 23 Lees Courtyard, Off Bull Street, Holt, Norfolk NR25 6HS. Telephone 01263 711040. Email: Adrian Hill. Website: www.picturecraftgallery.com. Opening times: Monday to Saturday 9.00am to 5.00pm. Thursdays 9.00am to 1.000pm only (closed Sundays).
APRIL: Thursday 19th to Sunday 29th April: Society of Botanical Artists 'BOTANICAL CELEBRATION 2012', Central Hall, Westminster, London. Open Daily from 10am to 5pm including Sundays. Free Admission. All work for Sale. www.soc-botanical-artists.org
APRIL-MAY: Cambridge Drawing Society. (Subject to being selected.)
JULY: Cambridge Open Studios (Weekends 1 and 2). STUDIO OPEN, 18 HARBOUR AVENUE, COMBERTON, CAMBRIDGE CB23 7DD. 7th-8th and 14th-15th July 2012. Tel: 01223 262962; mobile 07802 708 028; Enquiries by email to: tina@tinabonedtp.co.uk. Cambridge Open Studios (COS) Website
JULY: Friday 13th to Saturday 28th July: National Exhibition of Wildlife Art (NEWA), Gordale Garden Centre is a large extremely busy garden centre midway along the Wirral Peninsula, between Chester and Heswall on the A540. Email: info@newa-uk.com. Tel: 07748 533448. Write to: 11 Dibbins Hey, Poulton, Lancelyn, Bebington, Wirral CH63 9JU. Website: NEWA
JULY-AUGUST: Friday 20th July to Sunday, 2nd September: Natural World Art Group (NWAG) Summer Exhibition. www.naturalworldartgroup.com (NWAG). Situated within the grounds of Banham Zoo in the Art Gallery Building. Open from 1.00 to 5.00pm every day.
AUGUST: Thursday 25th to Monday 27 August: Marwell International Wildlife Art Society (MIWAS). Held in Marwell Hall, Marwell Wildlife, Hampshire, in conjunction with the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year Awards.
ONGOING: THE DARRYL NANTAIS GALLERY: 59 High Street, Linton, Cambridge, CB21 4HS. Telephone: 01223 891289 Opening time: Tuesday - Friday 10a.m.-3p.m. Saturday 12 - 4p.m Enquiries by email to: Karl Backhurst Website: Darryl Nantai Gallery.
ONGOING: THE TAVERN GALLERY: Telephone: 01763 261166 - Website: www.taverngallery.co.uk - Enquiries by email to: David Chappell. Normal Opening Thursday-Sunday 10-4pm [Closed whole of January 2011]
ONGOING: PAXTON PITS NATURE RESERVE: Cards and notebooks Paxton Pits Nature Reserve website
The Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve: Chairman, Ray Matthews, 01480 215277. Treasurer, John Knight, 01480 394844. Membership enquiries, Marilyn McDonough, 01480 351823
ONGOING: CONKERS STORES AND POST OFFICE: Calendars and cards, Conkers Stores & Post Office, 2 Comberton Road, Barton, Cambridge, CB23 7BA. Telephone 01223 262370 (Richard and Maria Sockett)
Awards
PUBLISHED WORK:
October 2011: Artists & Illustrator’s Magazine, 'Picture of the Month' in Portfolio section: ‘Canoodling in the loquats’, p. 28, Issue 305 (ISSN 0269-4697)
August 2011: Featured profile and paintings (Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Winter Leaves at Wicken Fen) published in the MIWAS (Marwell International Wildlife Art Society) 13th Annual Exhibition of Wildlife Art catalogue (in conjunction with the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year Competition). page 29.
August 2011: White Helleborines and Chiffchaffs chosen as IMAGE OF THE MONTH. Email from Painters Online: "I am writing to let you know that one of your paintings from the gallery at painters-online.co.uk has been chosen by the team as one of their favourite images added during July. As such the image will appear in a special panel on the home page of the site for the whole of August, and also on the page Gallery Images 2011. Thank you for your support of the site and for sharing such beautiful art work with us and other users of the site. We hope that you are happy for us to use your work in this panel but please let me know if not. We also have an area of the site called ‘Interviews with Gallery Artists’ [SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE], it would be great if some of our chosen artists could complete an interview for us, then we will be able to link the 2011 chosen images to an interview with each artist. This painting was also selected for NEWA 2011 and sold pre-view.
May/June 2011: Picture entitled 'Winter Leaves at Wicken Fen' chosen as 'Image of the Month' (June 2011) at Birdingart.com
December 2009-Ongoing (after viewing website): Approached to provide special prints for Interior Design Company (Project Art for sourcing and supply of art for public and commercial space, exclusively with interior designers and architects): Project Art Limited, Unit 4, The Quadrangle, 49 Atalanta Street, London SW6 6TU. Telephone +44 (0)20 7386 0040, Facsimile +44 (0)20 7386 0126 E-mail: gallery@projectart.co.uk, View Project Art Website. A4 and A2 prints (Orchids, Strelitzia). Latest special A2 prints for a 'Palace in Saudi' Comment from PA: 'we were very pleased with the prints. Enclosed is a photo of your wonderful prints in their frames for our project…and we think they look really lovely.'
April 2011: approached by cross-stitch company to license pictures for cross-stitch patterns and kits: The designer behind Gecko Rouge Cross Stitch Designs is Glenn Hill. Glenn also designs under the names of Kimbles and HillCraft. Work available as cross-stitch kits and patterns will be listed on my website and direct links to Gecko Rouge (when available) will be included with details of individual pictures which have been chosen. Exclusive Gecko Rouge Range: Tina's Cross-Stitch patterns. Website: Gecko Rouge on Etsy.com
April 2011: Received an enquiry from Marvin Broyhill, owner and CEO of Feenixx Publishing who publish "content-intensive" information posters which provide a comprehensive overview of the subject, presented through images and text. They have already published five bird posters and, "plan on publishing another six bird posters over the next couple of years. Each poster generally contains 30-50 images. [After looking at your website] I'm looking for an artist and hope you can help. If you are interested in working with us…". Visit the website at Feenixx Publishing Unfortunately, terms were not acceptable.
March 2011: Three-year rights transfer from March 2011 to Ling Design, Moonpig.com, SBA for reproduction of my red lily picture (number 5 of 5) renamed: 'Alan's Red Lily' Var. unknown. The image will be used in the design and print of Greetings Cards and Notelets, to be distributed worldwide, and will (unusually) acknowledge the artist.
February 2011: as a member of the Association of Animal Artists, invited (by selection) by Derby House to supply prints of three pictures ('The Ladies are Listening'; 'Ralph, No!'; and 'Monty')
January 2011: Received invitation from 'Cambridge Past Present & Future' to quote to supply artwork for a new leaflet for Coton Nature Reserve. Unfortunately, the timetable was too steep, so I had to decline.
2006-Current freelance post: Copy Editor, Journal of Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press. ISSN 0026-749X. journals.cambridge.org/ass
2007. Historical maps drawn by copying old maps, and designing some new for the distinguished scholar, Dr Joya Chatterji, Lecturer in History of Modern South Asia at Cambridge University and Fellow of Trinity College. Dr Joya Chatterji (2007) - The Spoils of Partition. Bengal and India, 1947-1967 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Author's comment: The maps have attracted very favourable comment!
Map drawings for other books:
Maps drawn in 2008 with reference from Dr Chatterji (re next paragraph below) for Samira Sheikh (2010) Forging A Region: Sultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200-1500. 288 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-806019-2ISBN10: 0-19-806019-X (Oxford University Press, USA). Samira Sheikh is an Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.
Dr Chatterji's main fields of research interests lie in Modern South Asia: communal conflict, partition and independence, refugees, minorities and the transition to democracy. Her publications include Bengal divided. Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947, Cambridge University Press, 1994; (South Asia edition, 1995; South Asia paperback edition, 1996, U.K. digital paperback edition 2003; Bengali language edition, 2004.)
2006-Current Webmaster: Design and maintain the following websites -
Academic Transcriptions http://www.academictranscriptions.co.uk/
Haddenham Conservation Society http://www.hcs.tinaboneuk.co.uk/
Juliet Gorman, Smoke-Fired ceramics http://www.smoke-fired.biz/index.html
Property Plus Lettings and Aardvark Student Lettings http://www.propertypluslettings.co.uk/
Dr S.M. Haslam, Cambridge Botanist http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/Haslam/
Algemarin Cosmetics http://www.algemarin.co.uk/
1998-Current freelance post: Designer and Typesetter for Tropical Agriculture Association quarterly journal. ISSN 1759-0604 (Print), ISSN 1759-0612 (Online)
Garden World Cup. COMMISSION. Artists impression of 'The Frank Taylor Memorial Peace Garden', designed by Jonathan Denby. To be published on the internet and in the brochure (October 2010). View painting.
RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 25–29 May 2010 Catalogue, p. 33. COMMISSION. The Victorian Aviary Garden sponsored by South Lakes Hotels, designed by Philippa Pearson and Jonathan Denby. Artists impression of garden (Show Gardens)
The Society of Botanical Artists Silver Jubilee Exhibition Catalogue, 16–26 April 2010, No. 54 ‘Passion Flower Bits’, p. 26 (also won a Botanical Certificate of Merit)
March 2010, Artists & Illustrator’s Magazine, Portfolio: ‘Passion Flower Bits’, p. 35 (ISSN 0269-4697)
For S.M. Haslam: line art. In Press THE WAVING PLANTS OF THE RIVER. Forrest Press, Cardigan
S.M. Haslam (2010). A Book of Reed. Forrest Text, Cardigan, UK. ISBN 978-0-9564692-0-5. Preparation of manuscript for typesetting and some line art.
S.M. Haslam (2008): line art. The Riverscape and the River. University Press, Cambridge. 404pp. ISBN 978-0-521-83978-5
‘Garden Fungus’ (photograph), ‘Your View’, Cambridge Evening News, 17 April 2009
The Wildlife Trusts (2008): design and produce camera-ready, A3 folded leaflet about The Fleam Dyke. Some of my paintings have been used in this publication: Red admiral butterflies; February NS02, wren and violets; April NS04 Small tortoiseshell butterfly; October NS10, spindleberry (download a free copy)
S.M. Haslam (2008). The Riverscape and the River. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83978-5. Design River Friend Logo, and some line art.
‘Rise and Shine’ (photograph), ‘Your View’, Cambridge Evening News, 13 March 2006
Skipness, the Wider View. (2006). Joanna Gordon.Birlinn Limited, Publishers. ISBN 10: 1 84158 405 3; ISBN13: 978 1 84158 405 8. Prepare handwritten ms for typesetting.
August 2005, Article in ‘Homes & Gardens’ entitled ‘Tropical Mix’, Cambridge Evening News Supplement, featuring my flowering prickly pear cactus in the garden, and picturing my paintings entitled ‘Pink Orchid’ and ‘Baby Bloom Cactus’
May 2005, ‘Business News’ section of Cambridge Evening News featuring my ‘Queen Protea’ in progress, ‘Pink Orchid’ and Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia)
COMMISSION (2004) Parakeets and hotel Logo for Le Paradis Restaurant and Hotel, Duxford, Cambridge (for signage and stationery) See logos on website, pictures top left and right
COMMISSION (2004) New “Coach and Horses Hotel” built at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, used for external hotel signage and stationery. Pen and ink drawing of hotel buildings and Coach and Horses. See logos on website, pictures top left and right
Understanding Wetlands: Fen, Bog and Marsh. S.M. Haslam (2003). ISBN 0-415-25794-8. Prepare ms for typesetting (Taylor & Francis), and some line art/diagrams.
COMMISSION (2002) European Lizard. Commissioned by Dr S M Haslam (University of Cambridge) as part of a front cover for one of her books entitled “Let’s go and look after our nature, our heritage - a field study guide”. ISBN: 99932-0-204-5
Article in Tropical Agriculture Association Newsletter (now Agriculture for Development) 'Fresh water and crops in Malta'. In, Tropical Agriculture Association UK, Newsletter, pp. 25–29, June 2001. 40pp., ISSN 0954-6790
Full project management to design and produce artwork for cover of catalogue (Open Networks Engineering 2001)
2000. Design and publish A4 Folded A5 leaflet for Fairhaven of Anglesey open day leaflet. Met with Lady Fairhaven and discussed requirements. Free hand in design—first draft accepted. New directions map was designed and digitally drawn from scratch.
September 1979, “The Three Horseshoes, Comberton”, Pen and Ink sketch as a preliminary drawing for a commission in oils of the final hunt meet at the pub, published in the Cambridge Evening News as part of a series of articles of local interest. (I was commissioned three times by three different people to do the same picture!).
Cambridge Evening News 1980, Pencil sketch of the old bridge at St Ives, Cambridgeshire.
David Leat, Thinking Through Geography, 1st edn, (1998, ISB
Media
Acrylics, Canvas, Drawing, Gilding, Gouache, Oils, Pen & Ink, Pen And Wash, Pencil/Charcoal, Print, Watercolour
Subjects
Animals, Botanical Illustration, Buildings, Fantasy, Flowers And Gardens, Illustration, Landscape, Pet Portrait, Portrait, Still Life, Trees and Foliage, Waterways and Canals, Wild Flowers, Wildlife
