An overview of the paintings of Christina Brodie  - Christina Brodie, UK

Coloured flowers: a painting originally made to illustrate how specific colours of paint can be matched to particular flowers.




Blue Spring Flowers: includes forget-me-not, Scilla, violet, grape hyacinth, periwinkle, viola, rosemary, spring anemone, Primula species.




Red/Purple Spring Flowers: includes hellebore, clematis, snakeshead fritillary, Daphne, auricula.




A painting made to show the different patterns, or honey guides, on a flower's petals that lead pollinators to the flower, in schizanthus, pansy and nasturtium.




Sections through fruit to show different ways in which the ovary is divided (placentation): tomato, kiwi, passion fruit.




Tropical fruits and spices: fig, cherimoya, pineapple, pomegranate, kumquat, clove, cardamom, nutmeg, star anise, cinnamon.




Seedheads, including those of dock, clematis, umbellifers, crucifers, wintersweet, magnolia, shepherd's purse, marigold, thistle, Hypericum, sweet pea.




Development of monocotyledon and dicotyledon seeds as shown in sunflower and maize.




Sunflower.




Different types of root: gladiolus (corm), lily (scaly bulb), daffodil (tunicate bulb), garlic (corm), ginger, iris (rhizome), ivy (adventitious root), parsnip (taproot), potato (stem tuber), strawberry (stolon).




Variegated leaves: Euonymus, ivy, hosta, zonal geranium, Aucuba, Pulmonaria, cyclamen and variegated conifer Thujopsis.




Study of apple "Discovery" through flowering and fruiting stage.




A comprehensive study of an oak, showing male and female catkins, foliage, bark, acorns, winter buds, autumn colour, the tree in summer and winter, and various galls.




Rendering of tree shapes in gouache and pen-and-ink.




Autumn colour, as shown in leaves from Westonbirt Arboretum. Illustrated are leaves of plane, 2 types of oak, 3 types of maple, sweet chestnut, katsura, beech, birch and ginkgo, with fragments of larch, a spindleberry and an acorn.




Winter Twigs 1 - Buds: horse chestnut, walnut, ash, beech, oak.




Winter Twigs 2 - Stems: willow, bramble, 3 types of dogwood.



Needle-leaved conifers: 2- and 3-needle pines, spruce, fir, Douglas fir, cedar, larch.




Scale-leaved conifers: juniper, thuja, Lawson cypress, cypress, cryptomeria, sequoiadendron. Illustrated with seeds and magnified shoot tips.
 



Yew, a conifer classed in its own category.




Fungi from a location on Exmoor, including: fly agaric, blusher, cauliflower fungus, a bolete, birch poplypore, Lactarius.



Different types of moss from an Exmoor location, including a species of Sphagnum (upper RH corner), and showing magnified views of the phyllids (specialized leaves).




Cladonia lichens, the magnified views showing branching and spore-bearing structures.




Crustose and foliose lichens on an apple branch, with magnified views revealing the apothecia (spore-bearing structures)




A painting showing how an environmental study can be made of a rare floral profile from a saltmarsh area and SSSI, using a combination of digital photographs and sketches.

Iris half-flower and one-third flower, showing the three-fold symmetry and how the stigma and style are worked into the floral structure, deceptively appearing to be a petal!




Passion flower. The male and female reproductive structures are borne on a column called the androgynophore, and surrounded by rows of corona filaments that form a platform for pollinators.
 



Euphorbia. The flowers arise from the centre of a bract and are contained within a small cup, surrounded by nectar-secreting glands. The male flowers are positioned inside the cup, whilst the female flower protrudes outside.