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Botanical Artists in Northern America

Contemporary Botanical Artists and Illustrators ​
​in the USA, Canada and part of the Caribbean
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This list is by no means comprehensive right now and will be added to as this site develops.  
  • The list is alphabetical based on surnames.
  • As it grows I will also categorise it by media used for botanical art (e.g. watercolour, pen and ink, pencil art and fine art printing)

​Separating countries within the Americas is a challenge - hence the term Northern America.

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The guideline I use for who to include is that the artists have 
  • EITHER won RHS Gold Medals for Botanical Illustration and/or the Jill Smythies Award for Excellence in Botanical Illustration and/or the Margaret Flockton Award
  • ​AND/OR work as a professional botanical illustrator in good standing - employed now or in the recent past by a recognised botanical centre of excellence and/or have contributed significantly to important scientific or academic botanical publications
  • AND/OR have otherwise distinguished themselves in terms of inclusion in Hunt International Exhibition and/or the winning prestigious awards and/or their work is included in important botanical art collections (e.g. the Smithsonian Collection, Hunt Institute, RHS Lindley Library, Shirley Sherwood etc.)
Those with longer entries tend to have have done all or most of the above!

See Botanical Artists for the full criteria
Note: The Banner image comprises the months of July and August from Lara Call Gastinger's RHS Gold Medal winning exhibit of "Seeing Plants; a year in Virginia" - painted in sepia watercolour - at the RHS London Botanical Art Show in July 2018

USA
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Francesca Anderson
Francesca Anderson at the Johnathan Cooper Park Walk gallery exhibition for the 25th anniversary exhibition of the Shirley Sherwood Collection.
Bobbi Angell in the hills of southern Vermont
Bobbi Angell in this hills of southern Vermont where she lives and works
Francesca Anderson GM (1995, 99)
A botanical artist who always works in pen and ink. She has received two RHS gold medals (Amaryllis in 1995; Brassica series in 1999) and over 20 solo shows and 60 group shows in the United States and abroad. She is a former President of the American Society of Botanical Artists, founder and president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society, a Trustee of Brooklyn Botanic Garden and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums in Sweden, Scotland, London, South Africa, Australia, Berlin, and Japan. It is also represented in many international museums and private collections (e.g. the Shirley Sherwood Collection, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Hunt Institute, the RHS Lindley Library and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Scotland). Her work has been published in numerous botanical books and journal articles.
Bobbi Angell 
Graduated in botany in 1977. Has drawn botanical illustrations in pen and ink ever since, working closely with the scientists at The New York Botanical Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University and other academic institutions. Has prepared over 2,000 botanical illustrations of tropical and temperate plants for botanical floras, monographs, and journal articles. In 2006 she received the Jill Smythies Award from the Linnean Society of London and ASBA Award for Excellence in the Service of Science. Her pen and ink illustrations have been published in Flowering Plants of the Neotropics; Vascular Plants of Central French Guiana; Vines of Puerto Rico, and Intermountain Flora. In addition to her scientific work, Bobbi drew plants for the New York Times for many years, and illustrated Our Life in Gardens. Recent work has involved copper etching. She co-authored and illustrated Botanical Illustration: Preparation for Publication  (1986) and A Botanist's Vocabulary: 1300 Terms Explained and Illustrated (2016). ​You can read more about her in
  • the American Society of Botanical Artists Back Story​
  • An Angel of an Artist by Scott Mori
  • In This State: For botanical artist Bobbi Angell, the beauty is in the details by Andrew Nemethy
Diane Bouchier
​Founder of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA). She studied scientific illustration at Harvard’s Peabody Museum and botanical illustration at The New York Botanical Garden (Certificate 1994). Her preferred media initially was watercolour and gouache and then coloured pencil and egg tempera. She has exhibited widely. Exhibited Hippeastrum (two studies) at the 8th International at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium and the Hunt. Also the Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook for 18 years.

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Carrie di Constanza
​Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Started painting botanical art in 2008 and works in watercolour and gouache. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Huntington Library and private collections.  Regularly exhibits with ASBA and at Filoli.
Karen Douthit
Provided illustrations for more than 120 scientific books and publications over 40 years and awarded the Jill Smythies Award by the Linnean Society in 2017. Born 1926 in Essen, Germany, she began drawing as a child. Studied textile design in Germany and worked as a textile designer in Paris in the 1950s.  Emigrated in 1959 with her husband to the USA and settled at the University of Texas in Austin, where she found her first work as a botanical illustrator. Moved to Ann Arbor in 1969 and contributed to provide scientific botanical illustrations for a number of taxonomists and other authors including the Flora of North Anerica. Read more:
  • The Linnean Voume 33 (2 October 2017) 
  • Spotlight: Artist captures the intricacy of plants | University (Michigan) Record Online

​Peggy Ann Duke 
Exhibited at the 16th International at the Hunt in 2019. Prior to this she freelanced as an illustrator for botanists at the University of North Carolina; the Missouri Botanical Garden; the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; the Nevada Fish and Wildlife Commission; the United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland; and the Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, and she was a part-time staff illustrator in the Department of Botany, University of Maryland, College Park. (United States). James and Peggy Duke created the Green Farmacy Garden, a medicinal teaching garden on their property in Fulton, Maryland. (From Hunt Bulletin Vol 29-1)
​Jean Emmons GM (2005, 2011)
​Works in watercolour and paints on vellum and is based on Vashon Island, WA, USA. Her work is included in numerous collections including the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library, and the Shirley Sherwood Collection. She has won many prestigious awards including
  • RHS Best Botanical Painting in 2011 for one of her Common mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, United States.
  • Her 2005 GM was for Pacific Coast Irises  - one of which now features on the back cover of RHS Botanical Illustration: The Gold Medallists)
  • the ASBA 2005 Diane Bouchier Founders Award for Excellence in Botanical Art.
  • “Best in Show” at the International Botanical Art Exhibition at the Horticultural Society of New York in 2007
  • 'Best in Show" at the 21st International at Wave Hill in 2018

​Akiko Enokido 
See Botanical Artists in Asia - Japan
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Margaret Farr
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Her work is in the collections of  the Shirley Sherwood Collection, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Denver Botanic Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Jean Emmons with the painting which won "Best Painting" at the RHS Botanical Art Show (March 2011). Part of a display of 'Common mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, United States'.
Ingrid Finnan
Her work has been displayed in a number of exhibitions associated with the Shirley Sherwood Collection at Kew, in London and in Singapore. She paints in oil on gessoed paper having been inspired by the work of Raymond Booth.

Susan T. Fisher 
​Former Coordinator for the Botanical Art and Illustration Program at Denver Botanic Gardens (1998-2006). Former Director of the Art Institute at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (2004-2012) where she created the Nature Illustration Certificate Program. Past President and former member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Botanical Artists and the Honorary Director of the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Illustrators. Her illustrations and sculptures appear in numerous periodicals, books, florilegia, private collections and national exhibits. She also juries selection for exhibition.
Marilyn Garber
Botanical artist and educator. Past President of the American Society of Botanical Artists (2007 to 2009). Founder of the Minnesota School of Botanical Art in Minneapolis (2001), and the Botanical Art and Illustration School at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix and the Eloise Butler Wildflower Florilegium. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Plant Science, Federal Government Botanical Field Guides, and other publications.  Her botanical paintings have been included in exhibitions at RBG Kew, the RHS, The Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Lara Call Gastinger
"Ten Walks in Virginia" - a sample of drawings from Lara Call Gastinger's RHS Gold Medal winning collection in 2007 Drawings copyright Lara Call Gastinger Photo copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Lara Call Gastinger (GM 2007, 2018)
Chief botanical illustrator for the Flora of Virginia Project.  RHS Gold Medal winner in 2007 for a very impressive series on Plants of Virginia - 10 Walks in Virginia which is one of my 'all time favourite' exhibits. She also works in pen and ink and won a second RHS Gold Medal for Seeing Plants; a year in Virginia" - her suite of 12 sepia watercolour paintings of plants she has found on her walks in different months of the year.  She frequently draws and paints a compendium of plants with a particular connection eg habitat or season.
Margot E. Glass
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Grew up in New York City. Studied art at The Art Students' League, Brown University,  Rhode Island School of Design, and Fashion Institute of Technology. Exhibited her drawing of Dandelions, created using Gold on Paper​, at the Hunt 16th International.
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John Gist
BFA in Illustration from the Philadelphia College of Art. Exhibited at the 12th International Exhibition at the Hunt in 2007
Monika deVries Gohlke 
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. A painter and printmaker working  primarily with botanical subjects - she sometimes hand colours her etchings. Has exhibited very widely and at prestigious venues and has work in private and public collections - including that of Shirley Sherwood. Has had her fine art prints exhibited in various exhibitions of the ASBA and at the Shirley Sherwood. Fellow of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium, NY
​Wendy Hollender
A botanical artist, illustrator, author, and instructor who works predominatly in coloured pencils. Member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society. Her work was included in the 13th International Exhibition at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, and in exhibitions at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, and the Smithsonian National Museum for Natural History. She is also an an instructor of Botanical Art and Illustration at the New York Botanical Garden and the author of the author of Botanical Drawing in Color: A Basic Guide To Mastering Realistic Form And Naturalistic Color and Botanical Drawing: A Beginner's Guide.
Botanical Drawing in Color: ​A Basic Guide to Mastering Realistic Form and Naturalistic Color
by Wendy Hollender
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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Publication date: July 20, 2010
See details of the author above.
Wendy Hollender's approach in this book is to tackle form first and colour second. It focuses on:
  • single light source toning techniques
  • principles of perspective for drawing flowers
  • the fundamentals of plant anatomy
  • coloured pencil techniques and colour theory of the natural world
The book also has lots of exercises and discussion of art supplies.

This book is rated an average of 4.8 stars out of 5 stars by 356 customers (global)​

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Rose Marie James (United States) - passionate about botanical art since 2009. Exhibited at 15th Hunt International. Teaches botanical art classes at NYBG


Karen Johnson
Degree in biological illustration from Iowa State University. Member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI), and the Nature Artists Guild of the Morton Arboretum. Exhibited at the 12th International of the Hunt in 2007.
Martha Kemp GM (1995, 1997, 2002, 2005, 2007)
Specialises in the use of graphite pencil for her botanical artwork. She has received numerous awards - including five Gold Medals from the RHS. Has work in the collections of the Hunt Institute, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium, the Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection in New York, and the Shirley Sherwood Collection in London.
PA Kessler
​BFA from Wayne State University. Orchid painter based on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Exhibited with the Hunt in the 7th International Exhibition in 1992. Work in the collections of both the Hunt Institute and Shirley Sherwood. Author of Response to Nature about her work.
Heeyoung Kim GM (2012)
​Heeyoung Kim won an RGS Gold Medal (Plants of the American Prairie - a series of 8 watercolour paintings) and a number of other awards. In 2012, she also won the Best in the Show at the 15th International Exhibition (2012) and the Diane Bouchier Artist Award for Excellence in Botanical Art. She's a member of The American Society of Botanical Artists and The Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Group in Long Grove, Illinois. She specialises in drawing American Prairie Plants. (see imagebank). She was also invited to contribute three works to The Transylvania Florilegium.
Heeyoung Kim RHS GM 2012
Heeyoung Kim and two of her Gold Medal Winning collection of "American Prairie Plants" (left) Fringed Gentian (right) Ohio Spiderwort © Heeyoung Kim Photo copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Karen Kluglein
Trained as an illustrator at the School of Visual Arts. She has won the Best in Show Award at the International Exhibition twice (2008 and 2010) and the Dianne Bouchier Award For Excellence in Botanical Art, 2010. Her work was exhibited at the Hunt Institute in 1999.

​Katie Lee
Graduate of the New York Botanical Garden Botanical Illustration program, Katie went on to become an instructor at NYBG for 20 years. Work in private collections in England, Australia, the United States of America and South Africa. including those of Shirley Sherwood and Alisa and Isaac Sutton . Author of 'Fundamental Graphite Techniques' - see below.
​Marjorie Leggitt 
Professional scientific illustrator. Lead illustrator for Flora of North America Volume 9: Rosaceae and Vol 13 Magnoliophyta. Also provided illustrations for volumes 6, 12, 19, 20, 21. Just about to start on the Flora of Oklahoma. She has also worked on other volumes and has produced over 180 plates. Illustrator of field guides. Lead instructor, Denver Botanic Garden School of Botanical Art & Illustration 1990-date. ASBA Botanical Illustrator Award for Excellence in Scientific Botanical Art (2012). RHS Gold Medal (Group) 2017. Based in Colorado.

Katherine Manisco 
Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, member of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Florilegium Society and the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society. Paintings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, the Hunt Institute, collection of Dr. Shirley Sherwood and the Highgrove Florilegium. Awarded the Grenfell Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1993.​​​​
Fundamental Graphite Techniques
by Katie Lee
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​he first time I became acquainted with this book was at the Chelsea School of Botanical Art where the book is imported and sold to students as a basic text book.

Katie Lee is 
a graduate of the New York Botanical Garden Botanical Illustration program. She has been an instructor at NYBG for 28 years, at Coastal Maine Botanic Gardens for 12 years and has taught at various venues internationally.

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The author creates natural history art as well botanical art - hence the bird on the cover. It's particularly relevant to those who are also like doing both natural history and botanical art.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: The book is all about graphite and nothing but how to draw using graphite!

I'm impressed with the quality of instruction which is much better quality than many other books which reference graphite as a drawing medium.

It comprises 33 worksheets designed to teach graphite techniques, and build confidence and control. It covers:
  • Fundamentals - the basics of how to draw eg lines, contours, value scales, how to hatch and the different grades of graphite
  • Working in Layers - focused on how to develop a range of tonal values and how this varies on convex, concave and spherical surfaces
  • The process - of developing a drawing of a subject in graphite
The worksheets are very precise and provide step-by-step instructions.

Note that the book is spiral bound - which is a joy when you want a book to lie open and flat so you can follow a worksheet!

Hardcover (11.25 x 8.75 in.) with Spiral Binding​
176 pages
Publisher: Lydia Inglett Publishing
Publication date: 2010

RECOMMENDED BY:
  • Chelsea School of Botanical Art
  • Denver Botanic Gardens School of Botanical Art & Illustration
  • Botanic Artists for Education and the Environment

My recommendation (if your tutor cannot supply it) would be buy a new book direct from Katie unless the cost plus shipping is more expensive (e.g. international shipping for this big heavy book is over $30)

This book has never been listed on Amazon by the artist. However new and used books are listed by third parties for ludicrous sums from time to time - check them out below!

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Linda Medved Lufkin
Has exhibited in the 16th International Exhibition at the Hunt in 2019; ASBA's 19th, 20th and 22nd International Annual Exhibitions - and won  The Richmond and Lili Bates Award in 2017 and the Best in Show Award in 2019. Plus exhibited in the Botanical Art World Wide: America’s Flora’ and ‘Out of the Woods: Trees in Public Gardens’ exhibitions. Has worked as an Instructor at The Minnesota School of Botanical Art since 2016. Prior to this she worked for many years creating customised murals for clients and was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Portland School of Art, ME. in 1982..  
Patricia Luppino
Born in Brooklyn, New York and a lifelong resident of Long Island. Recently retired from a long career as an IT professional. Started studying botanical art in 2005. In 2008 she earned the SBA Diploma in Botanical Painting with Distinction. Since then she's exhibited in various juried and group exhibitions of botanical ar
t - including the 13th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd ASBA Annual International Botanical Art Exhibitions - winning the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Award for Print or Drawing in 2019; the 1st Triennial Botanical Art Exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden and the 16th International Exhibition at the Hunt.
Kate Nessler GM
Lives in Kansas and had a career as a commercial artist before turning to botanical art. Awarded three RHS Gold Medals in 1990 (Orchidaceae), 1991 and 1993. Work in the collections of Highgrove Florilegium, The Shirley Sherwood Collection, The Royal Horticultural Society, The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, PA and The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Now paints on vellum. Displays work via Susan Frei Nathan (USA) and Jonathan Cooper (London). Lives and works in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. 
REFERENCE:
  • A Conversation with Kate Nessler By Joyce Westner (on the ASBA website) originally appeared in The Botanical Artist – Volume 15, Issue 1 ​​. ​
Derek Norman GM
Born in Shrewsbury in England in 1937 and settled in the USA on an exchange program for his work.  Had a career in graphic design, advertising and marketing. He now lives on Chicago's North Shore. Director of Creative Services at the Chicago Botanic Garden from 1996 and started teaching botanical art in 1998. He exhibited at the Hunt's 10th International Exhibition and has been awarded an RHS Gold Medal in 2006 and the ASBA James White Service Award for Dedication to Botanical Art in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society. ​Has work in the British Museum, and the Library of Congress. He is devoted to graphically documenting the native flora of Illinois and the Midwest. 
REFERENCE:
  • Derek Norman - 2017 ASBA James White Service Award for Dedication to Botanical Art by Libby Kyer
Hillary Parker
Born in Lakewood, New Jersey in 1964. She has been an artist and a teacher for over 30 years having graduated from Florida International University with a B.S. Degree in Art Education. She has delivered botanical workshops in botanical gardens across the USA and in Australia. She has exhibited at the Hunt International and at various venues in the USA, UK, Australia. She has artwork in the Shirley Sherwood Collection. Her coconut palm was displayed as part of the Trees: Delight in the Detail (Oct. 2018-March 2019) exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art.
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Hillary Parker at Kew Gardens on 15 October 2018 - with her painting of Coconut Palm: emerging seddling(crocus nucifera)
Lesley Randall
Master of Natural Sciences at LSU, with an emphasis in botany. In addition to her work in botany and horticulture she has produced scientific botanical illustrations for:
  • The Jepson Manual - illustrating all native and naturalized species of California.
  • The Flora of Yosemite National Park by Steven Botti - grasses and sedge illustrations
  • Tarweeds and Silverswords: Evolution of the Madiinae (Asteraceae), 
She has won numerous scientific illustration and botanical art awards including the ASBA Botanical Illustrator Award For Excellence in Scientific Botanical Art, the Margaret Flockton Award for scientific botanical illustration and an RHS Gold Medal (2017) for Native Hawaiian Flora. Currently works as the Curator of Collections, Plant Recorder and Gardener at the San Diego Botanic Garden. 
Richard (Dick) Rauh GM (2006)
He had a career in motion picture special effects and graphics before starting to take classes in botanical illustration. Certificate in Botanical Illustration at NYBG (1986). Doctorate in Plant Sciences (2001). Best in Show at RHS Botanical Art 2006. Paintings in the Hunt Collection, New York State Museum and RHS Lindley Library and the Shirley Sherwood Collection. Teaches at NYBG (since 1984) and on board of ASBA. Past president of both ASBA and the GNSI. Fellow of Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium​​
Articles about Dick Rauh:
  • Spotlight on: Adult Ed Instructor Dick Rauh
  • ​One Man's Second Act - Botanical Artist​
Deborah A. Ravin 
Exhibited at the Hunt's 16th International Exhibition in 2019. Deborah is a certified medical illustrator with a Master of Fine Arts degree in medical and biological illustration (University of Michigan) and a first degree from Rhode Island School of Design and Allegheny College. She was an instructor in the Botanical Art and Illustration Certificate Program at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona.
​​Janet Rieck 
Exhibited at the Hunt in 2004/5 exhibition. Won a "Best in Show" at the New York Botanical Society Exhibit in 2004. Three of her paintings have been included in the Highgrove Florilegium
​Alice Tangerini 
b. 1949. Staff illustrator in the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, since 1972. (Examples of her work). She specialises in monochrome illustration and lectures and teaches about scientific botanical illustration.
Articles about her work
  • ​The Botanical Artist Who Translates Plant Science Into Beautiful Art | Smithsonian Magazine (July 2018)
  • Botanical illustration is becoming endangered, but the job is essential | Washington Post (Jan 2020)
  • Botanical Illustrator Alice Tangerini | HillRag.com
plus her Google Arts and Culture page
See her 900+ pen and ink botanical illustrations on the Smithsonian database - put her name in the Artist cell on this search enquiry. 
Laura Vogel
Freelance botanical illustrator for Dr. Noel Holmgren, illustrating over 1300 new drawings for 
The Illustrated Companion to Gleason & Cronquist's Vascular Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. She has taught botanical illustration at ​NYBG for 18 years. She also taught field biology at William Paterson University and contributed illustrations to 3 volumes of Intermountain Flora.

Denise Walser-Kolar
Chief Executive of the American Society of Botanical Artists. In 2011, she received a Silver-Gilt Medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in London for her paintings of Hybrid Hazelnuts. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Teaches vellum workshops in the USA and occasionally at the Minnesota School of Botanical Art
Catherine Watters
Botanical artist, instructor and lecturer. Born in Paris but now lives in Orinda, California. Exhibits regularly at local, national and international shows. Her work is in various permanent collections of note including Shirley Sherwood's and the Hunt. Teaches botanical illustration in the San Francisco Bay Area (since 1999) and at Filoli Estates where she is an artist for the Filoli Florilegium.  She is also  a member of the Société Française d'Illustration Botanique and The Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Australia. She co-developed the Botanical Art Certificate Program at Filoli and is a frequent guest instructor and lecturer around the U.S. and in France. Serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Botanical Artists. he has curated and judged various exhibitions. Her illustrations appear in 5 books, three in the U.S. and two in France. 
Carol Woodin GM 
A professional botanical artist (represented by Susan Frei Nathan) who has been the Director of Exhibitions for the American Society of Botanical Artists since 2005. Specialises in painting rare plants in watercolour on vellum. She has been awarded an RHS Gold Medal (1995) and the Diane Bouchier Award. She is also the first botanical artist to receive the Orchid Digest Medal in 2016 for “meritorious service to the orchid world.” Her work has been published in Curtis Botanical Magazine and various scientific publications and is in the collections of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Dr. Shirley Sherwood Collection, and Alisa and Isaac Sutton.
​​This photograph was taken at the exhibition to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Shirley Sherwood Collection at the Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery in Chelsea.  
​You can read the e-catalogue of the exhibition.
Carol Woodin
Carol Woodin with Phormium sp (watercolour on vellum over panel) at the exhibition to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Shirley Sherwood Collection.
See also  Selected artists for America's Flora (Botanical Art Worldwide #1)
Today's Botanical Artists by Cora B Marcus  (Author), Libby Kyer (Author)

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This is a compendium of a selection of contemporary botanical artists currently living and working in the USA around the second millennium.

A more accurate title is 
"Botanical Artists of Today living in the USA" as it doesn't include leading artists living elsewhere. 

It includes 65 artists and 220 drawings and paintings. Each artist has a double page spread for a short statement about their work plus three or four images. However in an appendix there is also a useful and comprehensive datum for each artist relating to selected exhibitions, collections, memberships, awards etc as at the date of publication.. It also includes the price of paintings in the book and contact details.

The landscape format suits some of the images particularly well whereas other portrait format images are rendered smaller than I'd have like to see. The quality of the images seems to be influenced by the quality of the scan or photograph provided by the artist as there is some variation in quality - however most are excellent.

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Margaret Best 
Born, raised and educated in South Africa where she trained as an art teacher. Worked in various countries and settled in the Rockies in Canada in the 80s. Has work in the Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and numerous private collections. She is also a member of the botanical art societies in Canada, USA, Bermuda, Southern California, Southern Alberta, South Africa, France and the Florilegium Society of the Royal Botanical Gardens of Sydney, Australia. She has been teaching workshops in several different countries for the last 10 years.

​Sherry Mitchell SFCA
Sherry is a watercolour botanical artist, specializing in the native flora of British Columbia, Canada. Her work is included in the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.

​Sheila Siegerman GM (1992)
Born in Briti
sh Columbia in 1931. Had a career in design prior to botanical art. Began botanical art in the 1980s and has had solo exhibitions at different venues. Awarded Gold and Silver medals by the RHS. Exhibited in 7th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration at the Hunt Institute. Her work is also included in the Highgrove Florilegium and the Shirley Sherwood Collection - and included in the "A New Flowering - 1,000 years of botanical art" exhibition.
Margaret Best with Schotia brachypetala
Margaret Best with Schotia brachypetala - the plant is native to South Africa (where Margaret was born) and is a feature tree in the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney (at the RBGS Florilegium Exhibition at Kew Gardens April 2018)
Pamela Stagg GM (1991)  
​Won an RHS Gold Medal only 4 years after discovering an interest in botanical art. Also won the Grenfell Medal. The Royal Canadian Mint commissioned her to design the Trillium Coin for the prestigious Pure Gold Coin series. Her book Roses: A Celebration was published by Northpoint Press in the Fall of 2003, 

Kerri Weller 

Her work is in the permanent collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Her paintings have been juried into 5 International Exhibitions of the American Society of Botanical Artists. She is a a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and the University of Toronto's medical illustration program. Works in oil as well as watercolour.
Picture
Pamela Stagg with her Four Figs Ficus carica at the PV for the Modern Masterpieces of Botanical Art at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew (November 2019)
See also Selected Canadian artists for 'Art of the Plant' (Botanical Art Worldwide #6)

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