NEWS about Botanical Art and for Botanical Artists

3rd Birthday and 600,000 Visitors

28/4/2018

Botanical Art and Artists started three years ago on 16 April 2015.

This week, this compendium about Botanical Art and Illustration for Botanical Artists and fans received its 600,000th visitor.

Home Page (crop) of Botanical Art and Artists as it passes 3rd birthday and tops 600,000 visitors

ABOUT
botanical art and illustration past and present
FOR
botanical artists & illustrators of today & tomorrow
around the world

It sounds like it's been 200,000 each year whereas in fact it's been a steady - and ever increasing - upward trend as more and more people and groups have found out about it. Each month BA&A currently gets between 35,000-40,000 visits and 50-55,000 page views.

I'd like to say a big thank you to all those individuals and organisations that have

found enjoyment and/or value in the website,
provided an awful lot of content for me through your own achievements
inspire me to keep going!

There's lots more still to come.
This is a major retirement project for me - which will keep me happy and fulfilled for a long time - and I have a very long "to do" list!

The website Home Page on the Launch Day.

Your suggestions for content are, as always, most welcome - particularly in relation to any new content or new pages.

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The image on the Launch Page is Fritillaria imperialis by Alexander Marshal
The image on the current Home Page is Studies of Peonies Paoenia officinalis (c.1472-3) by Martin Schongauer (1450-1491) Gouache and watercolour; 25.7 × 33 cm (10 1/8 × 13 in.) One of the earliest surviving northern European botanical studies drawn from life which now lives at The Getty.

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Botanica 2018 at Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

26/4/2018

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Botanica - Australia’s leading contemporary botanical art exhibition now in its 19th year - is the second of two botanical art exhibitions at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney until 6th May.

Venue: Lion Gate Lodge, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
Dates: 21 May - 6 May 2018
Exhibiting artists: listed below. They include some of the best Australian and international established and emerging botanic and natural history artists

The can be viewed at the same time as the Margaret Flockton Exhibition (see Nataneal Nascimento wins Margaret Flockton Award 2018) which is a short stroll away at the Maiden Theatre)

Theme: 'Symbiosis'. The theme of this year's exhibition explores the complex and remarkable relationship we humans have with plants. Artwork reflects the symbiotic relationships some plants have with other plants and animals.

Artwork is for sale with the proceeds of original artwork and limited-edition prints going to the artists and to Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens. The latter contribution helps this not-for-profit organisation support horticulture, conservation, scientific research and education programs within the Botanic Gardens.

Exhibiting Artists

The exhibiting artists include:

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Amanda Ahmed,
Beverly Allen,
Tane Andrews,

Janette Barlow,
Samantha Bayly,
Shannon Bellamy,
Sylvia Beresford,
Samantha Blanks,
Esther Bolz,

Linda Catchlove,
Stephanie Chambers,
Yvonne Chan,
Glenys Clarey,

Barbara Davison,
Pauline Dewar,
Rosemary Donnelly,

Roslyn Earp,
Judith Edmonds,
Melinda Edstein,
Alison Ellis,

Helen Fitzgerald,
Ros Franklin,

Susan Grace-MacDonald,

Anne Hayes,
Cheryl Hodges,
Tanya Hoolihan,
Annie Hughes,

Kerriann Indorato,

Jillian Lloyd,
Angela Lober,
Marina Lommerse,
Anna Lu,

Janet Matthews,
Lynda McPherson,
Mary Ann Mein,
Peter Mesenberg,
Mali Moir,
Elaine Musgrave,

Julie Nettleton,
Kate Nolan,
Leonie Norton,

Rita Parkinson,
John Pastoriza-Piñol,
Joy Pearson,
Vivien Pinder,
Patricia Prince,

Lauren Sahu-Khan,
Sandra Sanger,
Anne Saville,
Peter Schouten,
Shipra Shah,
Claire Stack,
Sue Stuart,

Heather Trott,

Olivia Unicomb,

Bronwyn Van de Graaff,
Anna Voytsekhovich,

Christine Weldon,
Colleen Werner,
Sue Wickison and
Sue Wilcockson.

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Nataneal Nascimento wins Margaret Flockton Award 2018

24/4/2018

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Brazilian scientific illustrator Natanael Nascimento has won the Margaret Flockton Award 2018.

This Award and Exhibition at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney is very prestigious and attracts submissions from scientific botanical illustrators from all over the world - as demonstrated by the prizewinners below.

Margaret Flockton Award 2018
for Scientific Botanical Illustration

This is very much an award for the professional botanical illustrator since it is very much focused on the plates produced for the record and for scientific botanical publications.

What happens is that illustrators from around the world

digitally submit scientifically accurate taxonomic illustrations
i.e. highly detailed black and white drawings primarily undertaken in pen and ink, pencil or digitally rendered.
that accompany a published taxonomic description of the plant,
with the drawing clearly highlighting all of the distinctive features of the species.

The Criteria used to judge the Award are listed below:

Accurate interpretation and portrayal of the plant characters and diagnostic features highlighted in the botanical description
Technical merit
Artistic merit
Composition
Reproducibility

See A Guide to Scientific Illustration for more information on judging criteria.

First Prize $5,000 (AUS)

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Worldwide Day of Botanical Art is 18th May 2018

22/4/2018

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THE WORLDWIDE DAY OF BOTANICAL ART
is
A Global Initiative
in
25 Countries
on
Six Continents
with
25 Botanical Art Exhibitions portraying Native Plants
and features
LOTS OF ACTIVITIES
on
18th May 2018
which is
THE WORLDWIDE DAY OF BOTANICAL ART

If you want to find out what is happening where you live

Events on 18 May are listed on this official webpage
FOLLOW the links listed below
what's happening is organised alphabetically by CONTINENT AND COUNTRY
BOOKMARK: Information will also be updated below as it becomes available.

Do let me know if you have

a banner artwork for your exhibition
and/or a list of selected artists
and/or a URL re. Activities on 18th May 2018

You can also find out more on:

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Exhibition by the Birmingham Society of Botanical Artists

21/4/2018

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The Birmingham Society of Botanical Artists are hosting an exhibition of botanical art in 2018 - which opened last week. This is their first exhibition since 2013 - because of the lack of a suitable venue.

The 2018 exhibition is being held in The Core, Courtyard Gallery, Solihull B91 3RG and the dates are 18th April – 5th May 2018. (This is how to get there)

The exhibition includes 60 artworks by 22 artists. 43% are executed using coloured pencils and 36% are watercolour paintings. The rest (20%) are graphite or mixed media.

Around 10 artists will be providing demonstrations during the course of the exhibition.

Below are some gallery views of the exhibition.

You can find a list of exhibiting artists in this exhibition in the file below - together with titles and media.

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You can also see artwork by some of the members in the gallery on the BSBA website

Birmingham Society of Botanical Artists was founded in 1999 by graduates of the University of Birmingham’s Certificate of Higher Education in Botanical Illustration.

Members are drawn from an area bounded by Shrewsbury to the north, Worcester to the west, Nottingham to the east and Rugby, Nuneaton and Leicester to the south.

The aims of the Society are that

members should continue to develop skills in botanical drawing and painting;
the Society to encourage and support such development through the provision of a monthly programme of talks, workshops and practical sessions.

Details of the BSBA one year botanical illustration course can be found on the website.

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Botanical Illustration - Books by Bobbi Angell

18/4/2018

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Bobbi Angell is a name which is well known to the botanical art and illustration community in the USA - but is maybe less well known further afield.

My contribution to highlighting her contribution to scientific botanical illustration has been to create a new page about two books she co-authored which I think are particularly noteworthy. They were also published 30 years apart in 1986 and 2016. Both are very valued books in my botanical art bookcase.

Botanical Illustration - Books by Bobbi Angell is a NEW page among the group of pages which form a subset of The Best Botanical Art and Illustration Instruction Books

It focuses on:

Botanical Illustration: Preparation for Publication (1986) by Noel H. Holmgren and Bobbi Angell
A Botanist's Vocabulary: 1300 Terms Explained and Illustrated (2016) by Susan K. Pell and Bobbi Angell

The first book is 30 years old but contains an absolute wealth of information and how to prepare botanical illustrations for production and the approaches and materials used for this task

The second book is a book for a wider audience - but also has particular relevance to the student of botanical art, who needs to both understand technical botanical terms - and terms used by gardeners - and appreciate the standards in technical monochrome botanical illustration achieved by those who do it for a living.

READ MORE about them on Botanical Illustration - Books by Bobbi Angell

You'll also find the above books listed on The Best Botany Books for Botanical Artist and Illustrators.

READ MORE about Bobbi Angell on her website or on my page about the top botanical artists in the USA

Bobbi Angell in Vermont

In-depth Reviews of botanical art instruction books ad authors

Certain instruction books or authors receive in-depth reviews - and get a page all to themselves. CLICK the links below to go to those pages.

SBA Books - in-depth reviews

Books by popular botanical art tutors

Technical books about Botanical Illustration

Botanical Illustration - Books by Bobbi Angell

Botany books for botanical artists

Botany for the Artist

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The Transylvania Florilegium Exhibition #1

7/4/2018

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Get your diary out! This is a very short post to say that the dates for viewing the botanical paintings in Volume 1 of the Transylvania Florilegium have now been identified.

The exhibition details are as follows:

Venue: Romanian Cultural Institute (UK), 1 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PH (nearest tube is Hyde Park Corner)
Dates: 21st May - 12th June 2018
Publishers: Published for The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation by Addison Publications Ltd London
More details: Addisons Publishers page and the Highgrove website
Facebook: The Romanian Cultural Institute Facebook Page will doubtless also have announcements in due course - but I know some of you need to book further ahead re. trips to London!

The watercolours for Volume I have been printed and the first bound volumes will be ready in May. The last paintings for Volume II have been completed and will be printed later this year.

I'll be writing more blog posts about it - including which artists are involved and the process adopted to compile the Transylvania Florilegium - when more details are available.

At present, most of what I know from the botanical art perspective is on the Florilegium Page of my website - which goes from Historical to Contemporary.

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