Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 Q&A Webinar TONIGHT!

The Association of Botanical Artists are TONIGHT hosting a free online webinar about Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 on Zoom for artists from around the world.

DATE: Tuesday 12th September 
TIME: 8pm (British Summer Time)
TOPIC: Q&A session focused on the Botanical Art World Wide 2025 exhibition
SPEAKERS: Carol Woodin in conversation with Martin Allen 
This session is designed to help answer any questions you may have about this exhibition. 
WHO CAN VIEW: The event is open to ALL botanical artists no matter where you live. 
​This event is NOT just for ABA Members and you do not have to be a member to watch.
LINK: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86845923213

The webinar is also being recorded and will be available to watch after the event.

DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION?
You can:

• either email your questions in advance to the Association of Botanical Artists via assocbotart  @  gmail.com (close the gaps before you send!)
• or you can ask a question via the Chat Channel during the webinar.

Botanical Art Worldwide 2025

DATE: 18th May 2025 (i.e. 20 months in the future)
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: "Crop Diversity".

The second Botanical Art Worldwide Project will focus on and celebrate biodiversity in the crops that have been closely associated with the human species over thousands of years. The theme is designed to draw attention to the vast variety of food and useful plants available, in contrast with the relatively few varieties currently used in mass cultivation. Plants eligible for inclusion are those cultivated for food, textiles, building, energy, and medicine.
Currently, many heritage species and varieties are only cultivated in small quantities by specialist growers on a limited scale. It is vital to promote this genetic diversity in a world challenged by a growing population, changing climate, and habitat losses.
Botanical Art Worldwide Website

In 2025, Botanical Artists and associated organisations and various institutions from around the world will be collaborating to develop the second Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition by

• creating botanical artworks related to crop diversity
  
• exhibiting these artworks in each of the participating countries - at the same time.

All artwork will focus on plants which are included in one of the following categories

• HERITAGE CROPS: Crops that are not used in modern, large scale monocultural agriculture. Crops chosen should have been in cultivation for a minimum of 50 years.
• CROP WILD RELATIVES: Wild species that can be hybridized with cultivated crops to impart a new characteristic to the cultivated crop, or that are foraged wild plants.
• ANCIENT CROPS: Those that have been cultivated for hundreds or thousands of years in the same form.​

FIND OUT more about:

• the overall approach on the Botanical Art Worldwide website at https://www.botanicalartworldwide.info/​
  
• Botanical Art Worldwide in the UK tomorrow.
  

 BAW2025: Q&A Participants

CAROL WOODIN

Carol Woodin has been the Exhibition Director for ASBA for many years and was also the lead organizer for the Botanical Art Worldwide Project in 2018, which drew 25 countries to participate on a theme of wild plant diversity in each country. The project was a huge success, saw the founding of several new botanical arts organizations, and formed new bonds between artists, scientists, conservationists, galleries, and the public.

She began her botanical artwork in 1990. Her watercolors on vellum are held in collections worldwide, including in the Shirley Sherwood Collection, the Smithsonian Institution, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Hunt Institute. She’s received an RHS Gold Medal (1995), the 1998 ASBA Diane Bouchier Artist Award, the Orchid Digest Medal of Honor in 2016, and the 2018 James White Award for Service to Botanical Art.

Alongside working on her own artistic projects, she has sought to elevate the stature of botanical art and reach out to wider audiences through her work as Director of Exhibitions for ASBA and elsewhere. In this capacity she has helped to curate several themed botanical art exhibitions to deliver messages about the important roles plants play in all our lives.  Beginning with Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World in 2011 to the most recent New York Botanical Garden Triennial, Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity in Garden, Farm, & Field, these themed exhibitions have each traveled around the US

MARTIN ALLEN

Martin J Allen GM (1995, 97, 99) is a well known award winning botanical artist, botanist with a degree with Honours in Environmental Horticulture. His artwork can be found in the collections of the Hunt Institute and Shirley Sherwood. He has won two individual RHS Gold Medals plus received commissions from the Royal Horticultural Society. He is an Emeritus Fellow of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society and won a Gold Medal when they exhibited as a group at the RHS.  He is a regular international exhibitor.  He is also highly regarded for his work on local plant conservation, surveying wildflower habitats for local authorities and helping local communities improve their wildlife areas.​

Martin is also a founder member of ABA and one of the charity ABA trustees.

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