​List of Titles of Gold Medal Winning Exhibits at RHS Botanical Art Shows
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Artists, either individuals or groups that have not previously exhibited at an RHS Show, must first submit a sample of four pieces of work to the RHS Picture Panel for assessment and approval at the May Submission Selection Meeting to be eligible to apply for space to display work at an RHS Show in 2020. 

A very high standard of work is expected when exhibiting botanical illustration at an RHS Show.
Exhibiting at RHS Shows

Hazel Wilks working at Kew Gardens Herbarium

TOP TIPS on 'How to be a botanical artist' from Hazel Wilks 

• Don’t be scared of mistakes. You’ve got to get to know plants and do a lot of drawing and look at different structures. You will, with time, learn to fix mistakes. 
• Understand the science behind plants. Capture things as you see them. 
• When working from live plants you can take photos and then ink the drawing in the next day using the photographs to help. 

Hazel Wilks in the Marianne North Gallery - with some of her botanical illustrations - on Worldwide Botanical Art Day in May 2018

Future Events for botanical artists
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Pinus jeffreyi Jeffrey Pine - Branch and cone. Watercolour by Nicola Macartney

Paintings of plants collected by John Jeffrey

"Plants Collected by John Jeffrey" - exhibit at the RHS Botanical Art Show by Nicola Macartney

Nicola Macartney standing next to her watercolour painting of Pinus jeffreyi - the Jeffrey Pine

About John Jeffrey

The odds were stacked against John Jeffrey from the start. The distances to be travelled across British Columbia and the Rocky Mountains were extraordinary, while the territory itself was challenging due to the extreme cold, high altitude, and unrest among Native American tribes

• Unearthing the epic true story of a missing Scottish explorer | First published in The Scotsman, 25 April 2019 

Thanks to his work however the seeds from 119 species were collected and more than 400 plant specimens sent to the Herbarium at RBGE, including seeds and/or specimens of 35 conifer species. Two plant species still bear his name, Dodecatheon jeffreyi and Pinus jeffreyi while a third,Penstemon jeffreyanus, was later renamed by botanists

• John Jeffrey rediscovered | Botanics Stories | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Green Gold (the book)

Botanical Art Show at ​International Horticulture Goyang - 2019

Botanical Art Show at Taipei Botanical Garden
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Botanical art plays an important role in Kew’s scientific work. Find out how Kew’s botanical artists reconstruct specimens, and how their drawings help our botanists study plants.

Botanical illustrations aren't just art. They communicate precisely what's needed for the taxonomic science.
Maria Vorontsova, Research Leader

Lucy T Smith working on a botanical illustration at Kew

Mally Francis with her painting of Babington’s Leek (Allium ampeloprasum var.babingtonii) at the RHS Botanical Art Show 2018 (12 July 2018)

Mally Francis - a Timeline in Botanical Art
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She was a particularly lovely person and always very kind. I have known her for well over 30 years. She started botanical painting with me at the Leicester college and became a member of the LSBI. She also attended many of my Summer Schools at Market Overton. She then moved to Cornwall and started teaching but we kept in contact and I have always heard particularly flattering comments about her teaching. I am sure that all who had the privilege of knowing her will miss her
Anne-Marie Evans

The Studio was originally built about 250 years ago as the Sawpit for the Heligan estate when logs were dragged in by a horse and then cut into planks and beams by two men using a pit saw. One above, standing on the log (the top-dog) and the other below in the pit, covered in sweat and sawdust, (the under-dog).
When we bought The Wagon House in 1997 the Sawpit had become a ruin with only two cob walls standing and the brick piers opposite to support the roof.
In 1999 we commenced the restoration and it came into full use as our studio early in 2000. The Sawpit, thirty feet long and six feet deep still remains beneath the floor as a little piece of Heligan history. 
Nowadays, the Sawpit is in full time use again, either for the Botanical Painting classes or as a Photographic Studio. A collection of old saws are attached to the roof beams.

My teaching philosophy is to encourage all students to develop their own skills to the highest level possible. There is never any competition in my classes and everyone can work at their own pace. The courses are always enjoyable and old friends meet each other year after year as they return to continue their studies. Everyone has their own aspirations and it gives me great pleasure to help them to achieve their own goals.
Mally Francis (in Mally Francis Paints the Lost Gardens of Heligan
February 1, 2011 by Tania Marien)

a still from the video about her botanical painting classes at the Wagon House

The Florilegium was the inspiration of Mally Francis FCPGFS, FEPFS who founded the Society in 2000, and was its Chairman from 2001 to 2012. Mally stepped down in January 2012, and was made Honorary Founder Chairman of the Society, and a Fellow of The Linnean Society in recognition of her contributions to world of Botanical Illustration and Botany.
Eden Project Florilegium Society