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Blogging about botanical art historically has tended to be something done by younger botanical artists.
Blogs by artists can often be very informative as to the practice of botanical painting as well as sometimes chatty about the natures of life as an artist. Recent Trends:
The blogs below are categorised according to the organisation or ranking of the artist who publishes them. See also Botanical Artists on Facebook. |
A peony and a cyclamen - a plate in the Hortus Eystettensis (1613) by Basilius Besler
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About Botanical Art |
By GM Botanical Artists |
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This is for blogs which are oriented around information for botanical artists
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These are blogs by botanical artists who have won an RHS Gold Medal (or equivalent)
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Botanical Art Society BlogsUK
IRELAND
SOUTH AFRICA
USA
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Botanical Art Exhibition Blogs
Green Currency Exhibition: Catalogue Cover
(courtesy ASBA/NYBG)
Botanical Art School BlogsUSA
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Blogs by Botanical Artists - by Country
These are typically - but not always - blogs by aspiring and emerging botanical artists.
I have more to add - once I know which label to put them under!
Australia
Brazil
Chile
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
North America - Canada & USA
Spain
UK
UK - SBA Members
UK - Associates of the SBA
UK - Current Diploma Students
I have more to add - once I know which label to put them under!
Australia
- Linda Catchlove - an active botanical artist based in Adelaide who exhibits, sells and teaches who contributes to the RBG Sydney Florilegium
- Vicki Lee Johnston DipSBA(Dist.) (Vicki Lee Johnston - Botanical Art) - Lives in Western Australia - and of course all the seasons are out of synch with the course! Vicki graduated from the Diploma Course with Distinction.
- Beckler's Botanical Bounty - a blog celebrating the journey across Australia more than 150 years ago of Dr. Hermann Beckler, the botanical collector on the Victorian Exploring Expedition. It's a kind of historical florilegium in progress - with an exhibition planned for 2018.
Brazil
- Rogerio Lupo - former winner of the Margaret Flockton Award; written in Portuguese
- Parecis Morato
- Klei Rodrigo Sousa - winner of Margaret Flockton First Prize, Second Prize and various Highly Commendeds
Chile
- Geraldine MacKinnon del Pozo - writes Mi Naturalismo (written in Spanish - but it translates using the Chrome translate function)
Ireland
- Shevaun Doherty writes Botanical Sketches and Other Stories and often includes some fascinating material about botanical art
Italy
- Renata Barilli's blog is called aperta-mentebotanicalart and is written in Italian
Netherlands
- Sigrid Frensen is a Dutch botanical artist who lives in the North of the Netherlands. She moderates the Facebook Group for Botanical Art. Her blog is called Sigrid Frensen
North America - Canada & USA
- Laura Ashton (Laura Ashton Illustration and Design) In 2015 she became a member of the Botanical Artists of Canada.
- Wendy Hollender has a blog on her Draw Botanical website related to teaching tips and her activities as an instructor.
- Lori Vreeke writes Art by Vreeke. Lives in California, USA and works in coloured pencil
- Janene Walky lives in the Pacific Northwest USA and writes Janene Walky Botanical Art
Spain
- Jessica R Shepherd (Inky Leaves) - A botanist turned botanical artist who now lives in Spain. Her blog is written in English.
UK
- see also under 'By GM Botanical Artists'
- Caroline's Art Blog - includes a record of travels to China to paint plants
- Sarah Morrish - The Natural Year mixes her botanical art with natural history art - and she teaches both.
- Masumi Yamanaka's Blog - provides an insight to being a botanical artist based at Kew
UK - SBA Members
- Gaynor Dickeson writes Gaynor's Flora
- Shevaun Doherty - Shevaun is a prolific blogger and paints on vellum and shares her botanical art advetnures on Botanical Sketches and other Stories
- Jarnie Godwin - writes about the practical aspects of being a botanical artist in Sketchbook Squirrel
- Lizzie Harper - a freelance botanical and natural history illustrator writes a lot of very useful blog posts
- Polly O'Leary - lives in South Wales and writes Polly O'Leary
- Ann Swan - blogs about her own work and the workshops she teaches around the world on Ann Swan Botanical Artist
- Dianne Sutherland - writes Dianne Sutherland - botanical artist. Dianne has been painting for 30 years and is also a tutor and one of the Moderators of the Facebook Botanical Art Group.
- Claire Ward - lives in West Wales and draws a lot of wild flowers, plants and trees in her blog called Drawn to Paint Nature
UK - Associates of the SBA
- none at present
UK - Current Diploma Students
- Helen Cousins (Petals and Paints) Started January 2014 - now moved to the blog on her new website