Botanical Art Exhibitions
by Botanical Art Societies, Florilegium Societies, Groups and individual artists
in England and Wales 
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Find out about botanical art exhibitions in England and Wales via the efforts of botanical art societies, groups and individual artists. 

This covers exhibitions by botanical art GROUPS:
  • national botanical art societies
  • florilegium art societies and groups
  • local botanical art societies
  • ​botanical art schools
and exhibitions by INDIVIDUAL botanical artists at
  • commercial art galleries
  • gardens and other venues​
​The Groups section has listings of
SEPARATE pages are devoted to other exhibitions at:
PLUS Permanent Collections of Botanical Art and Illustrations 

PLUS an ARCHIVE for past exhibitions by botanical art societies, groups and England and Wales
Banner Image: Artwork in the Exhibition by the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney Florilegium at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Lew

GROUP SHOWS
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National Botanical Art Societies
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Compared to more informal groups, 'proper' Botanical Art Societies typically have:
  • formal organisational status (constitution etc)
  • a membership scheme
  • offer signature status to members meeting specific standards of excellence.
  • a much higher ratio of professional and semi-professional botanical artists
Art society exhibitions may be
  • closed (members only) or
  • open i.e. anybody can enter artwork and the artwork selected will be that which has met the standard required - irrespective of whether it is by members or non-members. ​
The banner image at the top comes from the 2017 Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists.

Society of Botanical Artists (SBA)
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The Society of Botanical Artists is national botanical art society for the UK. It is also the oldest society of botanical artists in the world.​ 
  • This is its exhibitions page
  • ​The annual exhibition resumed in June 2019 at the Mall Galleries 

Association of British Botanical Artists
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The Association of British Botanical Artists was formed to organise the Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition for England and Wales. It's is currently reconfiguring its purpose and website. Any future notices about exhibitions will be posted here.

Florilegium Exhibitions in England
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Florilegium Societies are typically comprised of professional or semi-professional botanical artists. 
See a list of Florilegium Societies in the UK. ​
Their exhibitions tend to be more ad hoc and are certainly not held every year. ​

​Exhibitions will be listed here as an when I become aware of them. 
The Art and Healing Power of Plants
Venue: Chelsea Physic Garden and Royal Brompton Hospital
Dates: until 30th August 2019
An exhibition that intertwines botanical art, medicine and plants as a result of a collaboration between the Chelsea Physic Garden and the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust (RB&H).
  • Wander through the Chelsea Physic Garden and discover these highly-detailed works and their living counterparts for yourself.
  • The display continues at the Royal Brompton Hospital, with 15 works hung for public view in their café area.

Local Botanical Art Societies
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Local botanical art societies very often emerge if there is active teaching of botanical art and illustration in an area. Students learn, then want to exhibit and before you know it another society of botanical artists has been formed.

Other GROUP SHOWS of Botanical Art in 2019
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The difference between an art society and a group is that
  • the latter tends to be more informal
  • it may not necessarily have a formal membership scheme. 
  • it may form purely for the purpose of having an exhibition
  • Members may be professional artists, semi-professional or amateur artists.

INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL BOTANICAL ARTISTS
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Commercial Art Galleries - exhibiting botanical art
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The only galleries listed below are reputable galleries with a history of exhibiting botanical art. New galleries may be shown - but this depends on who the artist(s) are.
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Current and Future Exhibitions 2019
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PictureJonathan Cooper - Park Walk Gallery in Chelsea has regular exhibitions of botanical art - including the exhibition to celebrate 25 years of the Shirley Sherwood Collection
Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery
Venue: 20 Park Walk, London SW10 0AQ
Hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 6.30pm; Saturday 11am-4pm
​Gallery Artists: Beverley Allen; Rosie Sanders; Fiona Strickland; Jane Wormell

Rosie Sanders - By Any Other Name
  • 26 September - 12 October 2019
  • an exhibition of over twenty new paintings by the internationally-collected artist Rosie Sanders The exhibition will focus primarily on the beauty of the rose, and will feature many of the works included in the publication Rosie Sanders’ Roses: A celebration in botanical art, which will be released by Batsford in September 2019.

Galleries which have had solo exhibitions by botanical artists in the past
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Abbott and Holder Gallery.
​Venue: 30 Museum Street -opposite the British Museum- London, WC1A 1LH
​Hours: Hours: 9.30am - 6pm Monday - Saturday 9.30am - 7pm Thursday

​Lyndsay Ingram
Venue: 20 Bourdon Street, London W1K 3PL
Date: 26 September - 2nd November 2018
Hours: 10 am – 6 pm Monday – Friday
Thomas Gibson Fine Art
Venue: 39 St James's Street London SW1A 1JD
​Hours: By appointment
​Gallery artists: Brigid Edwards

​Tristan Hoare Gallery
Venue: 6 Fitzroy Square, London, W1T 5HJ
Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 11am – 6pm; Saturday: 11am – 6pm (during exhibitions)
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Botanica curated by Flora Goodwin and Omar Mazhar at the Tristan Hoare Gallery

PROFESSIONAL BOTANICAL ARTISTS - SOLO EXHIBITIONS IN THE UK
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Exhibitions are in chronological order of CLOSING DATE

SOUTH YORKSHIRE

Botanical Artist: Elizabeth Dowle
Exhibition: Pears and Apples: the Botanical Illustration of Elizabeth Dowle
Venue: Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens Bark House Lane, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT
Dates: 25th May - 3rd November 2019
Admission: Free (and free parking)

The exhibition will showcase Elisabeth’s beautiful illustrations from the Pear & Apple collection. These life size plates were painted from fruits from the National Collection Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent, and were used to illustrate "The Book of Pears" by Joan Morgan (2015) and "The Book of Apples”/ "The New Book of Apples" ( 1993, 2002)  by Joan Morgan and Alison Richards; published by Ebury Press.
Red Beurré Hardy by Elizabeth Dowle
Red Beurré Hardy by Elizabeth Dowle

Do you know about a Botanical Art Exhibition in the UK?
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UPDATES: How you can help

ANYBODY can help keep the information on the exhibition pages of this website up to date.

Please complete the form with details of:
  1. Title of the Exhibition
  2. Where it is being held (name of the place plus address PLUS City / County / Country + postcode
  3. Start and finish dates
  4. Theme of the exhibition - what's behind the title
  5. URL for the exhibition
  6. If you'd like to send me an image e.g. an exhibition flyer you can email this to me - see CONTACT
If you send me images of an exhibition once it is hung, I will try and do a blog post sharing what it looks like with others. This is often a great way of generating interest and visitors.

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