{"id":455033,"date":"2026-03-03T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455033\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:03:08","slug":"somerset-artists-painted-roses-feature-on-new-postage-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455033\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset artist&#8217;s painted roses feature on new postage stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A botanical artist&#8217;s work has been featured on a set of 10 stamps celebrating the beauty of roses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marie Burke, from Glastonbury, was asked to paint the roses, including the Constance Spry, the first English Rose bred by David CH Austin in 1961.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burke designed the stamps over the past eight months by going into Somerset gardens and taking inspiration from the flowers there, including Bishop&#8217;s Palace in Wells and Dyrham Park near Bath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I go out and about all the time, looking for inspiration from local gardens. People&#8217;s gardens and the growing they do, just wandering around locally, you come across amazing flowers. It&#8217;s really varied,&#8221; Burke said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A botanical artist&#8217;s work has been featured on a set of 10 stamps celebrating the beauty of roses.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}