Profiles of Selected Artists for 19th International (ASBA and The Hort.)

48 artworks out of 260 submissions have been selected for the 19th International Exhibition of the American Society of Botanical Artists and The Horticultural Society of New York 

Juried Selection

The jurors were

• Susan Fraser, Director, Mertz Library, The New York Botanical Garden
• David Horak, Curator of the Aquatic House, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• Catherine Watters, Botanical Artist

The selected artists come from the US, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom 

​Artists selected for the exhibition are listed below by the country where they live.

The links embedded in their name are to their website or ASBA profile. Links to artists' Facebook pages are also included where identified.

Iris germanica | Bearded Iris (Watercolor on paper) © 2016 Rosalind Allchin

USA

• Milly Acharya - lived in Ithaca, NY for over 30 years. She is inspired by local flora as well as tropical plants of India where she grew up. Won the 2011 Diane Bouchier Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in botanical art
• Rosalind Allchin - also selected for the 16th, 17th and 18th - with sepia biased monochromatic colour base. See her painting selected for the exhibtition above.
• Helen Byers - an active instructor
• Monika deVries Gohlke - born in Germany and lives and works in New York. Well known for her botanical etchings with aquatint and drypoint
• Carrie Di Costanzo - has exhibited widely in the USA
• Jean Emmons - an awardwinning botanical artist whose technique for painting on vellum is based on medieval manuscript illumination. In 2007 she won “Best in Show” at the International Botanical Art Exhibition at the Horticultural Society of New York.
• ​Margaret Farr - lives in Manassas, VA.
• Beverly Fink - a member of the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens
• Ingrid Finnan -  Born in Poland; now lives in Riverdale, New York City. Recipient of the Horticultural Society of New York Best in Show Award, 2013
• Jane Fisher - Studied botanical art at the Minnesota School of Botanical Art. Works in graphite.
• Lara Gastinger - from Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the chief illustrator for the Flora of Virginia Project. (Facebook Page)
• Jane Hancock - her work is included in the Florilegium of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
• Asuka Hishiki - her work will also be seen in the Flora Japonica exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens in the Autumn of 2016 which showcases "Japan’s native flora as depicted by eminent Japanese botanical artists"
• Wendy Hollender - works in coloured pencils and is also author and instructor
• Rose James - a graphic artist who took up botanical illustration in 2009
• Heeyoung Kim - focuses on painting wildflowers of prairies and woods
• Karen Kluglein - trained as an illustrator  and has moved from illustrating food for clients to teaching students about botanical art
• Linda Medved Lufkin - Facebook Page
• Patricia Luppino - born in Brooklyn, New York and lives on Long Island. Achieved a Diploma in Botanical Art with distinction from the SBA in 2008
• Tammy McEntee - currently enrolled in the Botanical Art and Illustration program at the the New York Botanical Garden.
• Derek Norman - devoted to graphically documenting the native flora of Illinois and the Midwest
• Rose Pellicano - Born in Italy and now lives now lives in Garden City, New York and teaches botanical art at The New York Botanical Garden and Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• Elizabeth Perry 
• Susan Pettee - Lives in Paris, France and Great Barrington, Massachusetts and has also had careers as a printmaker and antitrust lawyer!
• Ramiro Prudencio - a past student of Heeyoung Kim
• Betsy Rogers-Knox - recently painted a series of the Lifecycle of the Monarch Butterfly and the Milkweed Plant  for the RHS Botanical Art Exhibition 2016 and won a Silver Gilt Medal
• Constance Scanlon - Known as Connie; awarded an RHS Silver Grenfell Medal for her series of paintings, Preludes and Postludes on a Stem (2013)
• Kathy Schermer-Gramm - Botanical art instructor at North Carolina Botanical Gardens and Sawtooth Center Facebook Page
• Mitsuko Schultz - This is the story behind her exhibit in the 16th International
• Deborah Shaw - This is the story behind her exhibit in the 17th International
• Kerri Weller - Trained as a graphic designer and medical illustrator. Her paintings were juried into the 14th, 15th and 16th International Exhibitions
• Carol Woodin - Specialises in painting rare plants in watercolour on vellum. She has been awarded an RHS Gold Medal and the Diane Bouchier Award. ASBA Exhibitions Director. Facebook Page

RHS Botanical Art Show 2016: Betsy Rogers-Knox - Lifecycle of the Monarch Butterfly and the Milkweed Plant

Australia

• Deb Chirnside - an Australian artist who lives near Geelong
• John Pastoriza-Pinol - completed his docturmiento in Botany at University of Vigo, Galicia, in Spain. Now lives in Australia and has work in the Highgrove Floriliegium.

Brazil

• ​​Fatima Zagonel - an ex Margaret Mee Scholar (1999). Major collections including her paintings include the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Shirley Sherwood Collection and the Hunt Institute. 

Canada​

• Margaret Best - a botanical art tutor and a member of botanical art and florilegium societies around the world Facebook Page

Japan

• Akiko Enokido​​ - began painting Camellia Japonica when she returned to live in Japan in 2012 and won an RHS Gold Medal for them in 2016 (see Interviews with RHS Botanical Art Gold Medallists 2016 - from Asia)
• Noriko Kaneko 

Akiko Enokido with her gold medal winning display of Classical Camellia Japonica at the RHS London Botanical Art Show 2016

RHS London Botanical Art Show 2016: Esmee Winkel won another Gold Medal for her display of pen and ink drawings of rare and endangered orchids.

Netherlands

• Esmee Winkel a Scientific Illustrator for the Nationaal Herbarium Nederlands. Awarded RHS Gold Medals in 2013 and 2016 (and the Jill Smythies Award for excellence in botanical illustration by the Linnean Society in 2014. (see Interviews with RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners 2013)

Fritillaria Crown Imperial Rubra by Dianne Sutherland (watercolour on Kelmscott vellum)

UK

• Gaynor Dickeson - active member of the Society of Botanical Artists and the Society of Floral Painters and tutor.​
• Denise Heywood -  also a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers. Exhibited at the 15th International Exhibition of Botanical Art  at the Hunt Library
• Lizzie Sanders - Winner of three RHS Gold Medals. Represented in the USA by Susan Frei Nathan Fine Works on Paper
• Liz Shippam - lives in West Sussex. Her plums were exhibited in the 18th International which also featured on the December 2015 cover of the ASBA Journal. Facebook Page
• Dianne Sutherland - Botanical Art Tutor. Exhibited in the 12th International Exhibition at the Hunt. Facebook Page
• Julia Trickey - winner of 4 RHS Gold Medals (2006,2008, 2011, 2013) Facebook Page

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The Show has a number of awards:

• The Hort’s Best in Show Award of $500
• ASBA Eleanor Wunderlich Award of $500
• Helen Gray Garber Award of $500
• Richmond and Lili Bates Award for Excellence of $300 in recognition of an Artist by a Fellow Artist
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden Award for Print or Drawing of $250

The exhibition will be held between 3rd November 03 and 30th December 30, 2016 at The New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY

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