ONE of Royal Worcester’s most acclaimed painters Sally Wood, who is renowned for her enchanting depictions of orchard fruits synonymous with the company’s rich heritage, is demonstrating her skills and techniques at the museum next weekend.

Her technique is one very rich in detail with stunning layers of shading creating a wonderful three-dimensional quality that brings the subject to life. She will be demonstrating her skills in the museum galleries, Severn Street, Worcester, on Saturday June 11 from 10 am to 2pm.

Sally was born in Worcester in 1971 and after excelling in art school, she fulfilled a life-long ambition to join Royal Worcester Porcelain. Her talents were instantly recognised and she progressed very quickly from an apprentice to figurine painting and to much larger models. And after only a couple of years, Sally started painting Royal Worcester’s iconic Painted Fruit collection.

Sally’s love of landscape paintings and countryside scenes is reflected in every piece of her work where the backgrounds and foregrounds of the scene are given as much meticulous attention as the main subject, the fruit.

Sally has demonstrated the art of painted fruit in the US, Canada, Europe and the Far East.

Painted Fruit is an exclusive range of ornamental pieces from Royal Worcester and is uniquely crafted using traditional hand painting techniques first used in the 1770s.

The beauty of Painted Fruit can only be achieved thanks to the artistic skills of the craftsmen and women who work assiduously in its creation – painters train for seven years before being ready to take their place in line with the great Worcester artists of the past.