Nature Through Art

Maddison Adame • May 29, 2025

Libby Edmondson, 250. Catbells

Settled near Kendal in the Lake District in 2000 where she painted over 270 artworks all inspired by the nature of the surrounding landscape. Edmondson used acrylics for many of these paintings, distinguishing them with her vibrant use of colour. Known for her use of many bold and vibrant colours in her mix of landscapes, still lifes, and nature studies painted throughout her whole career.

Georgia O’Keeffe Untitled (Hibiscus), 1939

One of many unfinished O’Keeffe paintings that contain either preliminary drawings for unrealized oil paintings.

Georgia O’Keeffe, an American artist, grew up on a Wisconsin farm. After high school, with her heart set on being an artist she studied art and painting techniques in Chicago and New York. She also studied Arthur Wesley Dow’s ideas, prompting her to explore abstraction and abstract forms in nature. The subjects she primarily painted were landscapes, flowers, and bones, showcased in paintings over years and even decades. She specialised in large-format paintings that displayed huge enlarged flower blossoms. She drew inspiration from her life experience and her images often related to places where she lived in some way.

John ConstableWeymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill1816-17Oil on canvas, 53 x 75 cmSalting Bequest, 1910NG2652https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/NG2652 (Photography and Imaging, The National Gallery, London)

John Constable, Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordan Hill, 1816-17
View of Bowleaze Cove in Dorset westward looking Osmington. Constable stayed at the vicarage in Osmington, a small village near Weymouth, during his honeymoon in 1816.

Claude Monet, “Le bassin aux nymphéas” or “Water lily pond”, 1917-1919

Part of Monet’s famous “Water Lilies” series, dating from later in Monet’s life after almost a lifetime of studying color and light and as a leader of the impressionist movement making him and his pieces recognizable.

Work Cited

Constable, John. “John Constable, ‘Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill’, 1816-17.” John Constable | Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill | NG2652 | National Gallery, London, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/john-constable-weymouth-bay-bowleaze-cove-and-jordon-hill . Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

“Libby’s Gallery.” Nigel and Libby Edmondson, http://www.nigelandlibbyceramics.co.uk/libbys-gallery/ . Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

Ronald, Issy. “‘A Masterpiece Rediscovered’: Unseen Monet Painting Expected to Fetch More than $65 Million at Auction.” CNN, Cable News Network, 30 Oct. 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/30/style/claude-monet-painting-auction-intl-scli/index.html

“Nature as Muse: 18 Old and New Master Artists Inspired by Nature.” S Valenti Art,https://svalentiart.com/blogs/blog/old-and-new-master-artists-inspired-by-nature?srsltid=AfmBOooX4NrydGdxgFejP7J1RMiZzX2kQsQOTDVQBA4ZotOjiXQUEcCe . Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. (n.d.). Untitled (hibiscus), 1939 by Georgia O’Keeffe https://prints.okeeffemuseum.org/detail/501377/okeeffe-untitled-hibiscus-1939

About the Contributor

Maddison Adame, Head of Marketing, Communications, & Student Submissions

Maddison Adame is a junior and the head of marketing for the Grizzly Gazette here at Golden Valley. Her main extracurriculars that she regularly participates in speak to who she is and what she loves. She is a co-captain for the FCA club which is one of the Christian clubs at GV. She also regularly volunteers at her church Grand Central Collective for fundraisers and childcare in kids ministry. More on her as a writer is her passion about covering artistic pieces and anything that she draws inspiration from as she believes inspiration helps create inspiring and amazing stories. To her, being a student journalist is fun, inspiring, educating, and allows for her to learn so much more about life and journalistic studies. Student journalism matters to her because it is an outlet for pretty much anything from photography to writing to graphics. You can learn so much within one class. Outside of that she also loves art in its many forms, a range of music, and many aspects of life.