Cowslips & Forget-Me-Nots
Primula veris & Myosotis
A rich, leafy study of arching cowslip umbels beside delicate forget-me-nots, emerging from deep viridian shadows.
Image size · 14.5 × 17.1 cm
£78
Original watercolours · James BowlerA quiet study of
A quiet study of
botanical detail and stillness.
Four botanical watercolours, painted slowly and printed on fine paper — for the corners of a home that ask for a little calm.
Complete collection £280
The Collection
The quiet beauty of living plants, painted with care and intention.
Botanical Calm began with a sketchbook and a pencil. Each flower was chosen for its colour, form and character – cowslip, viola, dahlia, dianthus – and each was painted only after a long look.
The work is about stillness as much as it is about botany: the patience of careful observation, the softness of pigment meeting paper, the way a single stem can settle a whole room. These are studies for people who find beauty in quiet moments, among things that were made by hand.
The Main Offer
The complete collection
All four botanical studies, professionally printed on fine art paper, and sent unframed. A considered set — hung together as a group, or scattered through the quiet rooms of a home.
- Four unframed prints · Cowslips & Forget-Me-Nots, Dahlia, Dianthus & Garden Snail, Spring Violas
- Professionally giclée printed with lightfast inks on heavyweight fine art paper
- Each print true to the size of the original painting, plus a white border
- Packaged flat in rigid protective card
£280for the set of four
Or take a single print for £78 — see them below.
Individual Prints
Choose a single study
Each print is available on its own, on the same fine paper, with the same high-quality giclée printing.
Dahlia
Dahlia pinnata
Luminous translucent petals in blushing pink and ochre, painted with precise brushwork and subtle glazing that draw the eye into its golden heart.
Image size · 12.9 × 15 cm
£78
Dianthus & Garden Snail
Dianthus caryophyllus
Deep wine-coloured blossoms rising above slender blades, accompanied by a finely stippled garden snail shell nestled below.
Image size · 14.6 × 19.8 cm
£78
Spring Violas
Viola tricolor hortensis
Vibrant velvet blooms in amber orange, soft sky lavender, and royal purple, against layered leaf and shade. A meditation on colour, form and stillness.
Image size · 16.9 × 22.2 cm
£78
The Artist
A practice of looking, slowly.
James Bowler is a botanical artist working in watercolour. He paints from life rather than photographs, preferring the discipline of a specimen that wilts, shifts, and asks to be observed before it changes.
His process is unhurried. A single flower may take three mornings: the first to look, the second to lay the first washes, the third to find the lines that matter. The result is work that feels both precise and quiet — accurate to the plant, generous to the eye.
Botanical Calm is his first collected set of prints — united by an appreciation of the quieter details of the natural world.
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Bring a little calm home.
The complete collection of four botanical studies, printed on fine paper. A quiet gift — for a home, or for yourself.
Unframed