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Paintings from the ongoing 'en masse' series

    William focuses his work within the realm of botanical art, with a fresh vision of realism to environment. His current series 'en masse' specifically reflects the environ of each species within a mass setting. Each floral and/or foliage specimen is presented as it thrives amongst many of its kind, which highlights variety of shape, contour, foliage display, play of light, color, rhythmic vibrancy and balance. This approach engenders the artist with more freedom of expression, which is paramount in an artistic endeavor – differing from the traditional path of botanical illustration. The large size as well as the acrylic on canvas medium is yet another point of departure from the more scientific, cataloging of botanical species. A more artistic approach to wholly botanical subject matter has been somewhat missing since the master impressionists graced the world with their canvases. —ENGLISH TRANSLATION AT BOTTOM▼

William Colclough Thomas en masse book

Click on the arrows next to the book to view pages from my new book. Use the navigation below it to view fullscreen, flip pages, post to twitter or facebook, or even buy a copy of this book on the blurb site. It's a real book, self-published through blurb.

Note: The price is high due to the low number of copies printed and high per book price. It's worth it to me to have a professional tool like a book as promotion for my art. The large version is a 13" x 11" hard bound coffee-table book with 46 pages, linen cover and dust jacket. The smaller version is 10" X 8" soft cover version at less than half the price of the larger book. Also, I have purposefully only previewed a small number of pages to make you want for more . . .

LARGE 13" X 11" Hard bound linen cover with dust jacket

SMALL 10" X 8" Soft cover

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