Yellow Warblers
Holly Ward Bimba, the artist behind Golly Bard, paints lovely watercolors inspired
by the nature surrounding her cottage in the rural village of Upperville, VIrginia.
After learning how to work with watercolor from her high school art teacher,
she studied printmaking, papermaking, and book arts at Syracuse University.
Watercolor still remains her favorite medium, and she uses it to create
delicate portraits of wild animals, plants, and other tiny wonders.
Wild Hare and Honey Bees
Web Weaver no. 5
Ant Hill
I love the way she combines her methodic, science–oriented approach to observing and recording
details and patterns, with a spontaneous, whimsical style and wonderful feeling for color.
Frolic in the Fernwood
Wild Hare and Honey Bees
Black Swan and Water Lily Bog
RIng Necked Pheasant no. 2
Bard is fascinated by natural history, repetition, and cataloguing. She often creates
artworks featuring series of animals, or series of artworks with the same subject.
Swarm of Empresses
Migration
Fanciful Feather Collection no. 1
Beetles, Weevils and Flies no. 8
You can view the rest of the series on Bard's Flickr gallery.
Bard has recently designed the Woodland Collection of fabrics. These charming works can be bought
from Spoonflower, a company that allows artists to print their own designs using digital textile printers
and eco-friendly inks on natural fiber fabrics.
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