John Pastoriza-Pinol
Exhibitions
Botanicum Series II
Scott Livesey Galleries, 06/08/2022 to 27/08/2022
d When asked by John to write something to accompany the occasion of this exhibition I was most struck by Vis Combinatorum. Like much still life, a genre very close to that of botanical art (indeed they are often one and the same), it is a work rich with allusions to different symbolic languages. John has engaged with the practice of vanitas, a tradition which emerges during the Dutch Golden Age (1588 to 1672), the Dutch being the masters of still life. Vanitas, literally vanity, or emptiness, use devices such wilting flowers, decaying fruit, flies, skulls, guttering candles, and clocks to remind viewers of the passing of time and t... Read More >
Sobriquet
Scott Livesey Galleries, 27/07/2019 to 17/08/2019
Sobriquet.John Pastoriza Pinol‘The wearer should fit the leather not the leather fit the wearer’. In a homoerotic male context, wearing black leather clothing is a sexual self-expression of heightened masculinity, sexual power and an engagement in fetishism. The leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organised around sexual activities that involve a wide range of leather garments. Wearing leather is one way these individuals consciously distinguish themselves from mainstream sexual cultures, where most associate the gay leather subculture with BDSM and flamboyant declarations of audacious individuals. Pastoriza... Read More >
Nubile Perfection
Scott Livesey Galleries, 25/05/2017 to 17/06/2017
‘It’s all about sex.’One could leave commentary at that, but since most of us suffer at least in part from horror vacui, I will expand a little.Back in the middle of the eighteenth century, when Carolus Linnaeus worked out a way of defining all living things, he realised that a key means of dividing up the Plant Kingdom was by looking at the reproductive parts of each plant: their flowers and seeds.All botanical illustration, the images which accompany scientific descriptions of plant species, must pay close attention to these parts. Presenting an array of often weirdly shaped ovaries, stamens, pistils, petals and sepals, thes... Read More >
John Pastoriza-Pinol
Pelargonium x grandiflorum (Aztec)
2022
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
30.00 x 25.00 cm
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Vis cominatorium (The alchemy of nature and artifice
2021
watercolour on Reindeer vellum
45.50 x 61.00 cm
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Papaver nudicaule (Confluence Iceland Poppies)
2023
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
35.00 x 25.00 cm
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Magnolia soulangeana (Chinese magnolia)
2022
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
80.00 x 64.00 cm
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Punica granatum var. nana (Dwarf Pomegranates II)
2021
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
20.00 x 25.00 cm
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Nepenthes maxima x northiana (Miranda)
2022
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
36.00 x 30.00 cm
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Pinus lambertiana (Sugar Pine cone)
2021
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
45.00 x 30.00 cm
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Papaver nudicaule (Iceland Poppies)
2022
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
36.00 x 30.00 cm
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Paeonia suffruticosa (Wu Jin Yao Hui)
2021
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
25.00 x 20.00 cm
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Paphiopedilum x hybrida (Slipper Orchid)
2022
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
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Paphiopedilum x sanderianum 'Screaming Eagles'
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
76.00 x 56.00 cm
Paphiopedilum sanderianum is a rare species of orchid endemic to north-western Borneo. First discovered in 1885, the orchid became renowned for the remarkable length of its petals, which can measure over 1 meter long. Although Paphiopedilum sanderianum has been used as a parent in a number of crosses, none of the resulting hybrids have so far matched the extraordinary lengths of this species' petals. After this rare orchid was rediscovered in the wild by Sheila Collinette in 1982 in Gunong Mulu National Park, scientific institutions, botanists, plant historians and commercial growers all wanted samples of this rare orchid. All this attention drew the attention of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). The pressure of over collecting and black market trade of these plants highlighted it’s of urgent need of protection. Some plants did fetch more than $25,000.00 each. Nowadays, wild collected plants are banned from international commercial trade, including their pollen, flowers, seed pods and leaves. Paphiopedilum x sanderianum ‘Screaming Eagles’ is a cultivated hybrid and this plant was painted from a specimen grown by an orchid specialist who previously worked for the National Tropical Botanic Garden in Hawaii. The National Tropical Botanical Garden is located on the island of Kaua’i and overlooks the Lawa’i Valley, the home of McBryde and Allerton Gardens. The NTBG Florilegium Society is a group of artists from around the world who meet once a year to document significant plants growing in the gardens. This work was started during the 2018 session of the National Tropical Botanical Garden’s florilegium project. The specimen was perfect as all the blooms where open at the time of painting where normally, flowers open gradually. A study of this orchid also features in the ASBA Handbook of Botanical Art Techniques, released March 2020Sold
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Magnolia x Soulangiana 'Vulcan'
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
52.00 x 72.00 cm
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Peony III (Paeonia x lactifolia)
2016
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
60.00 x 45.00 cm
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Poppy (Papaver x bracteatum)
2016
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
60.00 x 45.00 cm
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Anemone (Anemone x Hybrida)
watercolour on Arches 300gsm paper
60.00 x 45.00 cm
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