Formal Garden

Formal Garden is an intricate botanical floral Annie Sloan with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Decoupage Paper. Pieter van Kouwenhoorn (or Couwenhoom) was a painter who flourished in the 1620s and 1630s in the Netherlands.

The illustrations Annie Sloan has featured here are taken from van Kouwenhoorn’s watercolour collection of botanical illustrations, which dates from the 1630s and celebrates popular flowers of the day.

Here, stunning drawings of various popular flowers and blooms of the time are emphasized against a dramatic backdrop of Graphite