Ruth Welter

I'm an avid gardener and also a nature artist. My love of gardening has always fueled my desire to create and vise versa. When creating relief artwork, I love the connection that I have to nature and the plants and flowers that I am using. Growing, cutting and preparing the flowers for the relief process right through to casting, painting and finishing each piece, brings me great happiness.

The process of botanical bas relief has many steps and starts with real flowers that are arranged and pressed into clay that has been rolled flat. The clay is used to create a mold and plaster is poured into that mold to create the beautiful relief design you see. Removing the artwork from the mold, the piece is left to dry for a week. When dry, the plaster becomes white in color. The relief work is then sanded and sprayed with a matte varnish. Each piece of art is hand painted by me, using professional acrylic or watercolor paints to create a beautiful work of art, while other pieces are left unpainted to focus on the natural color of the plaster. For inside display only. I hope you will enjoy my artwork.