PAST - RHS Botanical Art Shows  2007-2018
Lists of Artists, Awards, Medals & Reviews
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This is an overview of the RHS Botanical Art Shows in recent years (2007-2018).
It lists Best Painting and Best Exhibit winners and all RHS Gold Medal winners + exhibits
It includes images of the shows and the botanical art and illustration which won prestigious awards.

Past RHS Botanical Art Shows 
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Below you can find a list of the awards and exhibitors at most of the past botanical art shows in London and Malvern back to 2007.

• London Lawrence Hall - 2007
• London Lindley Hall - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Malvern Spring festival - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

All the files listing exhibitors and medals awarded have been available to the public to download from the RHS website.

NEW! Exhibit Titles at RHS Botanical Art Shows - categorises the titles of past gold medal winning exhibits. You may be surprised at the result....

How to Enter

VIEW the main RHS Botanical Art Exhibitions page for:

• details of the exhibitions in 2019
• how to be approved to exhibit
• RHS Shows: Regulations and Guidance - This tells you How to Exhibit" 
• ​RHS Botanical Art Shows - Future - provides notes about 2019 and 2020 Shows

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READ Tips from RHS Gold Medal Winners in the Education section

Banner Image: RHS Botanical Art Show in 2014 - the sunflower exhibit won an RHS Gold Medal for Sharon Tingey.

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2019 - RHS Art and Photography Show (London)
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2018 - RHS Botanical Art Show (London)
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View of part of the RHS Botanical Art Show 2018

2018 - RHS London Botanical Art Show

• ​Venue: RHS Horticultural Halls (Lindley)
• Dates: Preview 10 July; Show: 11-12 July 2018
• Plus: Botanical Art Seminar on 12th July
• This is the Botanical Illustration Exhibitor Factsheet (557kB pdf)
• exhibitors list (593kB pdf)​

​Application for approval to exhibit deadline was June 2017 with the selection meeting in July 2017 - followed by the application to exhibit

ARTICLES about the RHS Botanical Art Show 2018

• TOP TIPS from RHS Gold Medal Winners 2018
• RHS London Botanical Art Show 2018 - Awards and Medal Winners
• RHS Botanical Art Show #1 Approval to Submit
• RHS Botanical Art Show #2: The Judges and Judging Process
• RHS Botanical Art Show #3: Medals Awards and Feedback

• Trade Stand Exhibitors at the RHS Plant and Art Fair (July 2018)
• ​Exhibiting artists at RHS Botanical Art Show 2018
• Botanical Art Seminar at RHS Botanical Art Show 2018​

RHS London Plant and Art Fair 2018 Awards (101kB pdf)​ - COMPLETE LISTING 
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• Best Botanical Painting 2018: Laura Silburn, Fern ‘No 6’ 
• ​Best Botanical Art Exhibit 2018: Michie Yamada ‘Wild Roses in Japan’ 
• Judges’ Special Award 2018: Hye-Woo Shin ‘Plants in Dokdo Island’ ​​

Laura Silburn with her Best Botanical Painting (acquired by the RHS Lindley Library)

Hye Woo Shin (Republic of Korea) with her Special Judges Award - the very first!

Best Botanical Art Exhibit 2018: Michie Yamada ‘Wild Roses in Japan’

2018 Gold Medals:

• ​Lara Call Gastinger GM (2007) - Seeing Plants; a year in Virginia 
• Bridget Gillespie GM (2017)- A year in the Yorkshire Hedgerow
• Christina Hart-Davies - Common British Corticolous Lichens 
• ​Hideo Horikoshi GM (2015 - Best Painting in Show 2015) - The Classical Chrysanthemums in Japan 
• Sarah Jane Humphrey  - Medicinal Fruits and their symbiosis with Pollinators​
• Angela Lober ​- Native Food Plants of Australia 
• Yuko Inujima - Acorn bearing Trees in Japan 
• Mayumi Ishii GM (2017) - Roses ​
• Yoshikazu Ohkawara - Pandanaceae   
• ​Angela Petrini​ - Rice of Italy - Cultivars Old and New 
• Hiroe Sasaki ​- Trees from the Atlantic Rain Forest 
• Laura Silburn GM (2013, 2014) ​ - AGM Dryopteris: species and cultivars of Dryopteris ferns with an Award of Garden Merit ​
• Hye-Woo Shin GM (2013 / Best Exhibit; 2014 / Best Exhibit) - Plants in Dokdo Island​
• Simon Williams - Nepenthes 
• Esmee Winkel GM​​ (2014, 2016) - Bee Orchids ​
• Michie Yamada - Wild Roses in Japan ​(Awarded Best Exhibit)

​RHS London Plant and Art Fair 2018 Awards (101kB pdf)

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2018 - RHS Botanical Art Show (Malvern)
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​2018 RHS Malvern Spring Festival 

• Venue: Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire WR13 6NW
• Dates: Thursday 11 - Sunday 14 May 2017
• RHS Botanical Art Awards download (66kB pdf)

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DUE FOR PUBLICATION IN JUNE 2019
Botanical Illustration from the Royal Horticultural Society: The Gold Medal Winners

Contents include:

• a diverse set of botanical illustrations by a cross-section of 60 Gold Medal winning botanical artists and illustrators from across the world
  
• Each image is accompanied by a short biography of the gold medal winning artist and discussion of their winning composition
• Images are of illustrations added to the RHS Lindley Collection
• an essay looking at the relationship between botanical artists and the RHS over time

​Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: ACC Art Books
Publication date: 26 Jun. 2019

PRE-ORDER THIS BOOK

Botanical Illustration from the Royal Horticultural Society: The Gold Medal Winners from Amazon UK

Botanical Illustration from the Royal Horticultural Society: The Gold Medal Winners from Amazon.com

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2017 - RHS Botanical Art Show  (London)
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Venue: RHS Lindley Hall
​Dates: 24-25 February 2017

RHS London Botanical Art Show 2017

Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Pandanus by Mariko Ikeda
Best Botanical Painting: Beetroot - Beta vulgaris (part of Root Vegetables: Lifecycle) by Bridget Gillespie

• ​2017 RHS List of Award Winners (57kB pdf)
• Information on the exhibiting artists

Best Exhibit in Show 2017 - Pandanus by Mariko Ikeda

Gold Medal Winners

• ​Denver School of Botanical Art & Illustration ​(USA - Colorado) - an exhibition by the instructors of Rocky Mountains: Plants and Funghi with Altitude
• Keiko Fujita (Japan - Tokyo) - Growth of Bamboo in Japan
• Bridget Gillespie GM (UK - North Yorkshire) Root Vegetables Life Cycle - Bridget has been a botanical artist since 1992, She won the Best Painting in Show this year and has won two previous Gold Medals for plums and pears.
• Annie Hughes GM (2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 + BISCOT) (Australia - Sydney) Eucalyptus of Western Australia - Annie is a phenomenon. She's exhibited four times and won a Gold Medal each time
• Suyeon Kim (South Korea - Seoul) - An exhibit of Endemic Plants of Korea
• Mariko Ikeda  (Japan - Tochigi) - Her exhibit of Pandanus won Best in Show
• Mayumi Ishii (Japan - Tokyo) - An exhibit of ten different Roses
• Kathy Pickles GM (UK - Orkney) - This is Kathy's 7th Gold Medal and this one is for Clematis. Rachel de Thame purchased one of her paintings!
• Shirley Slocock (UK - Surrey) - drawings in graphite of plants found in Wayside Tracks and Verge

Best Painting in LONDON Show 2017 - Beetroot Beta vulgaris by Bridget Gillespie

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2017 REVIEWS: RHS Botanical Art Show 2017 (in chronological order)

• ​RHS Botanical Art Show - The Frustrated Gardener
• Who's exhibiting at RHS Botanical Art (London) 2017? (about the trade stands)
• Artists' Exhibits in the RHS Botanical Art Show 2017
• RHS Botanical Art 2017 - Selected Artists
• Best Exhibit and Best Painting in RHS Botanical Art 2017
• RHS London Botanical Art Show 2017 - Medal Winners
• Video and review of RHS London Botanical Art Show 2017 (see below for video)
• Interviews with RHS Botanical Art Gold Medallists 2017 - from Asia and Australia

Bridget Gillespie is the artist who won "Best Botanical Painting" in the 2017 Botanical Art Show and the still for the video features her next to her painting of beetroot which won the award.

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2017 RHS Botanical Art Show (Malvern Spring Festival)
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Venue: Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire WR13 6NW
Dates: Thursday 11 - Sunday 14 May 2017

Best Botanical Art Exhibit - Bernard F Carter: Seed Heads

Gold Medals 

• Bernard F Carter (UK) - Seed Heads
• Lesley Randall (USA)  - Native Hawaiian Flora

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Silver Medal - Heritage Irish Plants - Plandai Oidhreachta exhibit by the Irish Society of Botanical Artists

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2016 - RHS London Botanical Art Show
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Venue: Lindley Hall
Dates: 25-27 February 2016 

• Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Tillandsia – Mariko Aikawa 
• Best Botanical Painting: Xanthorrhoea resinosa Pers., Grass Three with Antechinus Stuartii, Brown Antechinus – Julie Nettleton

RHS 2016: Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Tillandsia – Mariko Aikawa

Gold Medals

• Mariko Aikawa Tillandsia 
• Sansanee Deekrajang Tropical Climate plants 
• Akiko Enokido Classical Camellia Japonica 
• Sarah Howard Horn of Africa Aloes 
• Hiromi Hyogo Leguminous plants 
• Julie Nettleton Xanthorrhoea sp., Grass Trees 
• Simonetta Occhipinti The Citrus of the Medici Family 
• Chiyoko Ohmi Paulownia tomentosa 
• Roger Reynolds The Tip of the Branch 
• Sandra Sanger Orchids: Paphiopedilum & Australian Natives 
• Lidia Vanzetti Grapes of Piedmont 
• Margaret de Villiers Ericas of the Western Cape Fynbos 
• Esmee Winkel The Orchid 

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RHS 2016: Best Botanical Painting: Xanthorrhoea resinosa Pers., Grass Three with Antechinus Stuartii, Brown Antechinus – Julie Nettleton

2016 REVIEWS:

• RHS Botanical Art 2016 - Selected Artists - includes brief biographies, images and links to the websites of the 35 selected artists
• Interviews from the 2016 RHS London Botanical Art Show #1 - covering covers four artists from Asia - three from Japan and one from Thailand.
• Interviews with RHS Botanical Art Gold Medallists 2016 - from Australia and South Africa
• Interviews with RHS Botanical Art Gold Medallists - UK and Europe ​

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2016 - RHS Botanical Art Show (Malvern Spring Festival)
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• No Gold Medals
• ​2016 RHS Malvern List of Botanical Art awards (14kB pdf)

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2015 - RHS Botanical Art Show (London)
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Venue: Lindley Hall 
Dates: 27-28 February 2015
This was the year that the RHS introduced a show totally dedicated to Botanical Art.
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• Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Climbing Plants - Kumiko Takano
• ​Best Botanical Painting: Apiaceae Daucus carota ‘Kintokininjin’ – Hideo Horikoshi

Traditional root and tuber crops in Japan by Hideo Horikoshi

Gold Medal Winners

• Gulnur Eksi - Plants from the Woods and Forests of Chile.
• Hideo Horikoshi - Traditional Root and Tuber Crops in Japan
• Kimiyo Maruyama - Trees of Pinaceae in Watercolour
• Kathy Pickles - Fritillaria and Helleborus
• Masako Mori -  Persimmon.

 

• 2015 RHS List of Botanical Artists  (75kB pdf) 
• PLUS 2015 List of RHS medal winners​

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Best Botanical Painting: Hideo Hirokoshi with his carrot

2015 RELATED NOTES AND REVIEWS

• RHS Botanical Art Show 2015 - Selected Artists - provides background and links to websites of artists selected for the 2015 Show
• ​2015: (an overdue) Review of RHS Botanical Art 2015 - highlighting Gold Medal Winners, observations and tips
• ​The Telegraph - a slideshow - Incredible drawings from the RHS London Botanical Art Show (27–28 February 2015 at Lindley Hall, London)
• Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Today - RHS London botanical art show

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RHS Botanical Art Show (Malvern Spring Festival) 2015
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Venue: RHS Malvern Spring Festival
Dates: 

Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Halina Steele - Australian Eucalyptus Mallees ​

Gold Medals

• Giuliana Sordi - Plants of the Mediterranean Dry Regions 
• Halina Steele  - Australian Eucalyptus Mallees
• Karen Musgrave Hill - Chrysanthemum Flower Heads
• Ros Franklin - Arisaemas for the sheltered garden or greenhouse

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Visitors admired stunning new artworks in the RHS Botanical Art Exhibition in the Linden Suite of the Three Counties Centre. Featuring new work created by botanical artists from across the world, the show included exhibits from both previous medal-winners and first-time exhibitors. Subjects ranged from wild plants to greenhouse specimens, all depicted in watercolour, graphite and colour pencil.
RHS Malvern Festival 2015 - Highlights

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2014 - RHS London Botanical Art Shows
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2014 - The RHS London Orchid & Botanical Art Show (APRIL)
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 11th - 12th April 2014 | RH Lindley Hall

• Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Heterotrophic Plants in Korea – Hye Woo Shin
• Best Botanical Painting: Gunnera tinctoria – Isik Guner

Gold Medal winners

• Hye Woo Shin (Korea) - Heterotrophic Plants in Korea
• Işık Güner (Turkey/Scotland) - Plants from the woods & forests of Chile
• Lynda de Wet (South Africa) - Parasitic Plants in Situ with the Host Plant - this is her blog
• Louise Lane (UK) - Ophrys (Bee Orchids) of Menorca
• Nikki Marks (UK) - The Genus Arisaema
• Sharon Tingey (UK/Scotland) - Sunflowers (Helianthus)

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REVIEWS & Articles:

• RHS Botanical Art Show 2014 - Medal winners
• More Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art
• 15 Top Tips for presenting work at an RHS Botanical Art Exhibition
• Interviews with six RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners (2014)

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2014 - RHS Botanical Art Show (OCTOBER)
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The botanical artists exhibiting at the RHS Botanical Art Show in October 2014

2014 - RHS London Shades of Autumn Show
21st - 22nd October 2014
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• Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Aristolochias of British Botanic Gardens - Laura Silburn
• Botanical Art Awards - London/Autumn 2014 (26kB pdf)​

Gold Medals

• Denise Ramsay - Papaver orientale - Oriental Poppy
• Laura Silburn - Aristolochias of British Botanic Gardens
• Ruth Kirkby - Iris sibirica

Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Aristolochias of British Botanic Gardens - Laura Silburn

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2014 - RELATED NOTES AND REVIEWS

• 2014: Reflections on the RHS Botanical Art Show Autumn 2014 - covering both botanical photography and botanical art
• 2014: Three RHS Gold Medals for Botanical Art and a video interview (26 October 2014) - you can see the video interview here ​

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2014 - RHS Botanical Art Show (Malvern Spring Festival)
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• Best Botanical Art Exhibit: Gael Sellwood

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Gold Medals (4)

• Janie Pirie - Roses
• Giuliana Sordi - Ferns of Sardinia
• Gael Sellwood - Hydrangeas in autumn & winter
• Dr Julia Craig-McFeely - Apples - A Wisley Pomona

Malvern: Full list of Botanical Art Awards (29kB pdf)

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2013 - The RHS London Orchid & Botanical Art Show (London)
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 2013 RHS Botanical Art Show: 12–13 April 

• Best Exhibit in Show - Lauraceae in Korea by Hye Woo Shin
• RHS Botanical Art Exhibition: Best Painting in Show - Erica Bodkinii by Margaret de Villiers

RHS Botanical Art Exhibition 2013: Best Exhibit in Show - Lauraceae in Korea by Hye Woo Shin

RHS Gold Medals - Botanical Illustration (8)

• Gülnar Ekşi - Plants from the forests and woods of Chile 
• Annie Hughes GM - Citrus
• Sandra Sanger GM - Orchids
• Hye Woo Shin - Lauraceae in Korea
• Laura Silburn - Varieties of Hardy Geranium that have received the RHS Award of Garden Merit
• Julia Trickey GM - Nature in Waiting
• Margaret de Villiers - Cape Ericas (Heathers)
• Esmee Winkel - Leguminosae

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ARTICLES:

• RHS Botanical Art Show 2013 - Selected Artists - List of 30 botanical artists from 10 countries selected for The RHS Botanical Art Show 2013 in London in April.
• 2013: Interviews with RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners (18 Apr 2013) - Interviews with eight botanical artists who won Gold Medals at the RHS Botanical Art Show in April 2013.

RHS Botanical Art Exhibition: Best Painting in Show - Erica Bodkinii by Margaret de Villiers

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2012 - The RHS London Orchid & Botanical Art Show (London)
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Native Ferns of the Peak District by Louise Lane

2012 - RHS Botanical Art Show 16-17th March 2012

• Best Exhibit in the RHS Botanical Art Show 2012:  Native Ferns of the Peak District by Louise Lane
• Best Botanical Painting in the RHS Botanical Art Show 2012: Astrophytum by Annie Hughes

Gold Medals (7)

• Gulnur Eksi  - Plants from the woods and forests of Chile
• Annie Hughes - Astrophytums
• Heeyoung Kim - American Prairie Plants
• Kumiko Kosuda - Tricytis
• Louise Lane - Native Ferns of the Peak District
• Julia Trickey - Fading Flowers Observed
• Christiana Webb - Winter Oaks

See my blog post - 7 Gold Medal Winners at RHS Botanical Art 2012 - for a list of exhibiting artists by country

Astrophytum by Annie Hughes

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2011 - The RHS London Orchid & Botanical Art Show​ (London)
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At this show, artists needed to present a minimum of nine paintings

Total participating Artists: 24

Best Exhibit: The Anatomy of Flowers by ​Carolyn Jenkins
Best Botanical Painting - Jean Emmons

Gold Medals (5)

• Annie Hughes - Camellias
• Jean Emmons - Common mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, United States
• Norma Gregory - A Rooted Fascination
• Carolyn Jenkins - The Anatomy of Flowers
• Lidia Vanzetti - Pears of the Piedmont

ARTICLES:

• How to enter the RHS Botanical Art Show 22 Mar 2011
• RHS Botanical Art Show & Five Gold Medal Winners - Making a Mark 21 Mar 2011

Best botanical Painting - Jean Emmons

My sketch of the RHS Botanical Art Show in the Lindley Hall in 2011

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2010 - The RHS London Orchid & Botanical Art Show​ (London)
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2010 - RHS Botanical Art Show 
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• Best Exhibit in the RHS Botanical Art Show 2010 - Trees of Pinaceae in watercolour by Kimiyo Maruyama
• Best Botanical Painting in the RHS Botanical Art Show 2010 - Araucaria araucana ​- Isik Guner

Gold Medals (10)

• Brigitte Daniel (Oxfordshire) - Medicinal plants
• Celia Crampton (Oxfordshire) - Magnolia fruits
• Clare McGhee (Edinburgh) - Vegetables
• Gulnur Eksi (Turkey) - Plants from the woods & forests of Chile
• Işık Güner (Istanbul, Turkey) - Chilean plants
• Kay Rees-Davies (Conwy, Wales) - The Foliage of Cultivars of Begonia Rex
• Kimiyo Maruyama (Japan) - Trees of Pinaceae in watercolour
• Margaret Walty (Dumfriesshire) - Scotland Fritillaries
• Masumi Yamanaka (Surrey) Aesculus indica 'Sydney Pearce'
• Sheila Mannes-Abbott (Somerset) - Orchids

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2007 The RHS Botanical Art Show ​ (London)
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Venue: Lawrence Hall
The RHS London Flower Show - including the RHS Botanical Art Show
(February 2007)

part of "Ten walks in Virginia" - the Gold Medal winning exhibit by Lara Call Gastinger

Gold Medals:

• Yvonne Marie Arnsdorf (UK): Botanical Elegance
• Lara Call Gastinger (USA): Ten walks in Virginia
• Keiko Sasaki: Watercolour rubus

ARTICLES:

• ​2007: RHS Gold Medal Botanical Art (23 Feb 2007) ​This was the very first RHS Botanical Art Show show I  ever visited and write about

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