Find out about the titles of all new books about Botanical Art and Illustration
published in 2025 and recent years
INCLUDING all new good quality books providing instruction and tuition
BELOW you can find a list of all the titles featured in my review pages about the new books published in the current year and recent years. The books are listed by year and order of publication and also split into two categories:
  1. botanical art portfolios and flora and
  2. instruction books.
They may also be featured on other pages on this website once published and reviewed properly.
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(NOTE: This project was disrupted by my recent surgery / recovery and the need to pacify my osteoarthritis (!) but I'm currently working on getting it fully updated very soon - because the shoulder replacement comes next!

To be Published in 2025
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2025 - Botanical Art Portfolios & Flora
  • Botanical Beauty: Treasures from the French Society of Botanical Illustration ​by Agathe Haevermans, Karl Lagerfeld, et al. | Jan 21, 2025
  • The Art of Botanical Drawing: Art from the golden age of scientific discovery by Anna Laurent  | Sep 4, 2025

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2025: Botanical Art Instruction Books
  • Botanical Beauty Revealed: Mastering Intricate Illustration Techniques for Exquisite Botanical Art by Jacob Hughes | 5 Jan 2025
  • Drawing and Painting Leaves by Leigh Ann Gale  | 22 Apr 2025
  • Sketching Nature: The Beginner’s Guide to Keeping a Botanical Sketchbook by Dianne Sutherland  | May 6, 2025
  • Casting Flowers: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Botanical Art by Rachel Dein and Juliet Roberts | May 20, 2025
  • Botanical Prints in Linocut: An Artist’s Guide by Laura Sowerby | Jun 1, 2025
2024 - Botanical Art Portfolios & Flora
  • The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art and Global Plant Relations by Mark Laird | Oct 29, 2024
  • Marianne North: A Victorian Painter for the 21st Century (Northern Lights) by Lynne Howarth-Gladston | 20 Jun 2024​
2024: Botanical Art Instruction Books
  • Botanical Sketchbooks: An Artist's Guide to Plant Studies by Lucy T Smith  | Feb 26, 2024
  • Beginner’s Guide to Cyanotype: Beautiful projects to print with light Paperback – June 4, 2024​
  • e-Booklets by Margaret Best (2024)
    • Exploring Mixed Media - Pushing Perspective
    • Seeing Red, Painting Red - Watercolour OR Coloured Pencil​
    • Composite Compositions
2023 - Botanical Art Portfolios & Flora
  • ​Plant Atlas 2020: Mapping Changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora (2-Volume Set) by  Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (March 2023) 
  • Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants by David T. W. Lau, Man-Ching Li, et al. (15th April 2023)
  • Botaniphoria: A Cabinet of Botanical Curiosities by Asuka Hishiki (21st May 2023)
  • Plants of the Qur'an by Shahina A. Ghazanfar (Author), Sue Wickison (Illustrator) (June 2023)
  • The Tapestry of Life: A Botanical Artist's Miscellany  by Susan Christopher-Coulson (21st June 2023)
  • Botanical Sketchbooks (paperback version) by Helen Bynum and William Bynum (17th August 2023)
  • Drawn From Nature: The Flowering of Irish Botanical Art by Patricia Butler (9th October 2023)
  • The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration by Stephen A. Harris  (13th October 13, 2023)
  • Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants by James T Costa & Bobbi Angell (17th October 2023)​​ ​
2023: Botanical Art Instruction Books
  • ​Vibrant Botanical Painting: The Life of Plants in Watercolour by Jarnie Godwin (28 August 2023)​​​
  • e-Booklets by Margaret Best (2023)
    • The Value of Colour - Pale Hues and Soft Neutrals
    • The Value of Colour - Middle Groubd and Full Range
    • The Value of Colour - Dark and Deep
    • Exploring Mixed Media - Graphite and Watercolour
    • Exploring Mixed Media - Graphite and Coloured Pencil
2022 - Botanical Art Portfolios & Flora
  • Leonhart Fuchs. The New Herbal by Werner Dressendörfer (29th January 2022)
  • Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History by Martyn Rix  (1st March 2022)
  • Edible Plants: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America by Jimmy Fike (1st March 2022)
  • Fungi - Phenomena Natural, A Collection of Historic Illustrations Depicting the Natural World (15th September 2022)
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2022: Botanical Art Instruction Books​
  • New Ideas in Botanical Painting: composition and colour by Carolyn Jenkins and Helen Birch (10th March 2022)
  • The Science of Plants: Inside their Secret World (5th May 2022)
  • Botanical Watercolours through the seasons: An all-year-round guide to painting flowers and plants by Sandrine Maugy ​(15th July 2022)
  • (paperback edition) The Kew Book of Botanical Illustration by Christabel King  (15th July 2022)
  • e-Booklets by Margaret Best (2022)
    • Chasing Shadows - coloured pencil
    • Going Green - Watercolour OR Coloured Pencil
    • Capturing Light - Watercolour OR Coloured Pencil
    • Natural Neutrals in Watercolour OR Coloured Pencil
    • Picking a Palette - Watercolour
2021 - Botanical Art Portfolios & Flora​
  • The Art of Botanical Illustration (by Wilfrid Blunt and William T Stearn (1st Jun 2021) - unclear whether new edition or reprint with different cover
  • A Florilegium: Sheffield’s Hidden Garden ​by Valerie Oxley in liaison with The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens (29th June 2021)
  • Mushroom Botanical Art by Toshimitsu Fukiharu and Eugenia Bone (1st November 2021)
  • RHS Botanical Illustration: The Gold Medal Winners by Charlotte Brooks  (10th December 2021) see Book Review: RHS Botanical Illustration - The Gold Medal Winners​ ​
2021: Botanical Art Instruction Books​
  • Colour for Botanical Artists & Illustrators by Leigh Ann Gale (27 September 2021)
  • Drawing & Painting Flowers: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Floral Artworks by Jill Winch  | 20 Nov 2021
2021: Botanical Art Instruction e-Books by Margaret Best
  • A Place to Start in Botanical Art
  • Chasing Shadows - Watercolour 
  • Botanical Palette - Cool Hues and Spring Subjects - Watercolour OR Coloured Pencil
  • Botanical Palette - Warm Hues and Fall Subjects - Watercolour OR Coloured Pencil
  • Composition Concepts
  • Preparing for a Masterpiece - Watercolour OR Coloured Pencil

Published in 2020
2020 - Botanical Art Portfolios & Flora
  • Botanic Endeavour by The Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney See 
  • Whole Story: Painting more than just the flowers by Christina Hart-Davies (21 September 2020)​​​
​2020: Botanical Art Instruction Books​

  • The Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing and Painting Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, and More  by Wendy Hollender (7th April 2020)
  • Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists: How to Create Beautifully Detailed Plant and Flower Illustrations Paperback by Karen Kluglein (16th June 2020)
  • Botanical Art Techniques - A Comprehensive Guide to Pen and Ink, Watercolor, Colored Pencils, Etching, Egg Tempera, Oils, Casein, and More - edited by Carol Woodin and Robin Jess (18 August 2020) See The Best Instruction Books by Botanical Art Societies and ASBA's Botanical Art Techniques: first impressions +  who contributed?

Published in 2019
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2019 - Botanical Art Instruction
New Botanical Art Books in 2019
New Botanical Art Books in 2019

Published in 2018

2018 - Botanical Art Portfolios & Flora​
  • The Measure of the Year - Seasons in an Artist's Garden by Gael Sellwood (28th September 2018)
  • The Greenwood Trees: History, Folklore and Virtues of Britain’s Trees ​by Christina Hart-Davies (September 2018)
  • Scottish Plant Lore - an Illustrated Flora by Gregory J Kenicer and the Scottish Botanical Art Collective (18th October 2018)
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2018 - Botanical Art Instruction