Our Story
It all began in the studio on Valentine's Day when a Black Swallowtail Butterfly emerged from its cocoon. Having been dormant for four months and kept as a specimen to sketch and study on the drawing board, this summer memory from the field born in the studio in winter inspired us to team up and take off on line. Like the Butterfly's tiny wings which at first were small, shriveled and black with bright yellow windows of color, our idea soon grew magnificent glistening wings and began to fly in the sunlight. We are mother and daughter lifetime Artists and now partners in our work. We strive to share our inspirations from nature with the world and to make a difference in the way that you see it. We hope you will stay a while and be sure to stop by again to see how our offerings change with the seasons.
Beverly Baker
Beverly Baker is an Atlanta based multi-media artist whose work is included in the permanent collections of Fernbank Museum of Natural History and the High Museum of Art as well as in private and public collections elsewhere. A full resume is available upon request.
Starting out as a textile designer in NYC during the late sixties when all things new and groovy were happening there, she was one of the designers who created the exotic animal print movement. A love of patterns and natural resources continues to inspire her work in drawings, paintings, photography and most recently, print making.
Terrific new developments in archival printing techniques have enabled Beverly to use the computer to invent new spins on the representation of time honored flora and fauna. This mix of traditional painting and drawing techniques combined with computer generated effects creates unique images with new natural history stories to tell.
Beverly is active in the Atlanta Arts community having served as a founding member on the boards of the Atlanta Photography Group, The High Museum of Art's Photo Forum, and as former Vice President and Chairman of the board of Art Papers. Currently she serves on the advisory board of the Hambidge Center of Georgia.
Christy Baker Knight
Christy Baker Knight, or C.B. Knight, is an accomplished Artist whose love of natural history has led her on many adventures. She has dug for dinosaur bones in Wyoming with paleontologist Dr. Robert Bakker, snorkeled with sea life on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and camped on the banks of the Rio Grande for a month to study and draw the Chihuahuan Desert landscape. She has researched and illustrated species growing high and low: from the San Juan Mountains of Colorado to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, from the tide pools along the Maine coast to those across the Atlantic in Normandy, France, from hybrids cultivated in the Atlanta Botanical Garden to those in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Christy was 'cultivated' in her Mother's studio and garden in Los Gatos, California where there were always fascinating art supplies, books and plants. In high school, she studied fine art in the intensive pre-college summer course at Portland School of Art in Maine, now the Maine College of Art, and was awarded First Place in Painting and the Fine Arts Guild Awards at The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia. In college, Christy studied drawing, painting and botany at Colorado College where the block plan, studying one course intensely at a time, complemented her thorough research and study habits while the natural beauty of the mountains inspired her. This format also afforded her the privilege of studying for one month on location such diverse subjects as the Masters of the Renaissance in Italy and the Chihuahuan Desert landscape of the U.S/ Mexican border. Christy earned a B.A. with Distinction in Art from Colorado College in 1991. Upon graduation, Christy was hired as an Exhibit Designer for Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta where she produced exhibits, illustrations, murals and media kits for the Museum and Science Center. This was an exciting time during the Museum's construction and first few years of operation and Christy had the privilege of working with experienced Artists, Educators and Scientists in the field as well as in the design studio. A highlight was heading up a team of these fabulous folks at the Museum in 1994 to design an exhibit of the exact landscape of the Chihuahuan Desert Christy had studied in college, in conjunction with the Common Borders: Fronteras Comunes traveling exhibit.
For fifteen years Christy has produced illustration, art and murals for Field & Studio Productions, Ltd. During this time, her work has been commissioned by many private patrons and organizations including Chronicle Books, the Southeastern Flower Show, the Journal American Rhododendron Society, the Roswell Library and the Humboldt Field Research Institute. A member of the American Society of Botanical Artists since 1997, Christy has been exhibiting her work nationally in juried shows and galleries for over a dozen years.
Christy now calls herself an 'Art Coach and Science Illustrator'. She enjoys teaching drawing and watercolor techniques as well as botany, anatomy, color theory and art history for the Artist to all age levels in the Classroom while continuing to research subjects in the field and produce commissioned work for patrons in the studio.
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Right photo credits: Apple blossom, herb and dragonfly linens, Vici International, Bonnie Alikhan; Forest trail and seating area, Wonderfalls Landscapes, David Thayer
All photography by Beverly Baker
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"Attainment and science, retainment and art -
the two couples keep to themselves,
but when they do meet, nothing else in
the world matters."
~Vladimir Nabokov, Time and Ebb
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Field & Studio Productions, Ltd. is a Georgia Corporation and a fully licensed Sandy Springs business.
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