Texas wildflower art blooming on limited-edition watches in the UK

Feb. 9, 2010 - PRLog -- For the third year, Texas-based artist Linda Calvert Jacobson has licensed her contemporary wildflower paintings to JK Henderson for a line of limited edition, artist-inspired watches. The new designs will be sold on satellite TV shopping channels in the UK starting in May 2010.

Established in 1976, Henderson Watches is one of UK’s leading international watch wholesalers and retailers for licensed brand watches.

The deal was handled by Eaglecrown, an art agency representing Jacobson’s work for the United Kingdom and international  market. The fact that JK Henderson has licensed Jacobson’s designs for the third time, proves that art is meeting consumers’ needs, says Sue Bateman, Licensing Manager for Eaglecrown.  

“Linda's floral designs are appealing to customers because they are so cheerful and bright,” Bateman says. “The many colours make them easy to wear with all sorts of outfits and complement the colourful clothes that are so fashionable again.”

In addition to the watch deals with JK Henderson, Eaglecrown facilitated the licensing of Jacobson art on a line of greeting cards that were sold in the UK, New Zealand and Australia in 2007-2008. Last year, Jacobson’s watches were also sold on shopping channels in Germany as well as the UK. Bateman sees this as just the beginning.

“We are promoting Linda’s bright flowers designs to textile, apparel and canvas clients,” she says. “We also have great hopes also of finding a home ware license.”

Jacobson signed with Eaglecrown after meeting company representatives at the License 2007 International Expo in New York. Eaglecrown licensing agency, founded in 2001 as a representative agency for Russian palaces and museums, has grown to encompass a library of over 15 million images from the United Kingdom, Russia, Japan, the USA and Europe.

Jacobson’s work may be viewed online at http://www.lindacalvertjacobson.com.

About the Artist:

Linda Calvert Jacobson grew up south of San Antonio where Texas wildflowers bloom profusely in the spring. This is the core inspiration for her contemporary wildflower art series. The impressionistic and mildly abstract tangent that Jacobson takes in her contemporary wildflowers art series of paintings allows ample room for your imagination to take off and for all your senses to be involved with this vision before you.

As her interpretive, expressive and colorful wildflowers proved to be popular with a broad range of collectors, Jacobson began to offer images from the series as designs for licensing and quickly found that the wildflowers transcend geographic boundaries, appealing to art and nature lovers on an international level as was evident by the response received at annual International Licensing Expos in New York City where she exhibits her wildflower artwork to potential licensees. Today, Jacobson's contemporary wildflowers are licensed for a series of limited-edition, artists-inspired watches that are exclusively available in the UK and Germany. They are also featured on a line of greeting cards in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. She continues to negotiate and is open to discussing additional licensing opportunities. Jacobson is represented by two artist's agents, one in the UK and one in the US.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Linda Calvert Jacobson original wildflower paintings are in private collections in numerous states in the U.S. and several countries around the world. Jacobson's original paintings are frequently displayed at the renowned Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, and at galleries in Texas and Florida. She also exhibits her wildflowers at her own gallery, Casa de Linda Art Studio and Gallery, in historic downtown New Braunfels, Texas.

Jacobson lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband David and continues to explore new ideas and interpretations to find new ways to spread the joyful nature of her floral artwork.