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Exhibiting Artists: 20th Annual International Exhibition by ASBA & HSNY

7/11/2017

The 20th Annual International exhibition of contemporary botanical art, organised by the American Society of Botanical Artists in liaison with the Horticultural Society of New York, features artists from the US, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Slovenia, and the UK

Venue: New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10016
Dates / Hours: November 09 – December 21, 2017; Monday - Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm

46 artworks are in the exhibition - selected from submissions from around the world.

Below is a list of the names of the artists in the show - organised by country they live in and listing where they live. Most of the artists are naturally from the USA, but there are also artists from: Australia, France, Germany, Russia and the UK. (Note: Locations are derived from information provided on websites or social media).

If you click on the artists name on below - you can see their website and more of their artwork. (Note: I'll add in the exhibition page with links to the artwork and the story behind it once that's ready)

Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Lennei’ (2017) by Anna Suprunenko (Watercolor on paper, 37 cm H X 55,5 cm W (14,5 x 21,8 inches) Year: 2017

USA

Milly Acharya (Ithaca, New York) - 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. Previously won Best Painting (2005) and Best of Show, 2008 and Award of Excellence in 2011.
Bobbi Angell (Marlboro, Vermont) - a professional botanical illustrator for 40 years. Her botanical illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and commercial publicationsShe draws constantly, exhibits frequently, teaches occasionally, and gardens whenever she can.
Christina Baltayian (Sierra Madre, California) - Teaches botanical art at teaching Botanical Art at the Los Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Gardens and Virginia Robinson Gardens in Beverly Hills
Susan Benjamin (Florida) - President of the Florida Society of Botanical Artists
Monika deVries Gohlke (Brooklyn, New York) - a painter printmaker who exhibits internationally
Carrie Di Costanzo (New Jersey) - won the Jurors’ Award for Distinction of Botanical Art Presentation at the 14th show
Lee DZmura (Maryland) - member of the American Society of Botanical Artists, the Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region. Contributed to American Botanical Paintings: Native Plants of the Mid Atlantic
Ingrid Finnan (Riverdale, New York) Born in Poland. Consistent exhibitor at this exhibition (9th through 19th). Recipient of the Horticultural Society of New York Best in Show Award, 2013

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Prelude to Spring: Botanical Art in Vermont

16/2/2017

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'Prelude to Spring: Botanical Art in Vermont' opens tomorrow in Brandon, Vermont.

Venue: Compass Music and Arts Foundation, Park Village, 333 Jones Drive (PVT), Brandon, VT 05733
Dates: February 17 - April 1, 2017
Reception: Friday, February 17 from 4-7

This is an exhibition of botanical artwork by three of Vermont's finest botanical artists who produce artwork in response to careful observation of plants and flowers. All three are members of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) and its New England chapter (NESBA).

Bobbi Angell (Marlboro VT) - whose professional work focuses on drawing and encompasses copper etchings, scientific botanical illustrations and illustrating field guides. She will be displaying her copper etchings in the exhibition - see an example below.
Susan Bull Riley (Montpelier, VT) - who draws inspiration for her botanical watercolour paintings from the plants where she lives in central Vermont. Her artwork Her work currently hangs in the Vermont State House.
Stephanie Whitney-Payne (Chester, VT) - Also paints in watercolours. She is currently making a study of Vermont Wildflowers and is also painting a series of plants used in chemotherapy and medicinal treatments – some of which are on display at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Ascutney Hospital in Windsor, Vermont and the Sojourne Community Health Clinic in Westminster, Vermont.

Blue Flag Diptych by Bobbi Angell

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Flora Scotia (May 2018) - Call for Entries

20/12/2016

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The Scottish Botanical Art Collective

Botanical artists in Scotland have formed The Scottish Botanical Art Collective (SBAC) in order to respond to the call for countries to participate in the worldwide exhibition of botanical art being organised by ASBA.

The Scottish Botanical Art Collective (SBAC) is brand new umbrella organisation formed to represent the interests of botanical artists beloging to or working for:

the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh,
Edinburgh Society of Botanical Artists,
Scottish Society of Botanical Artists,
Botanical Images Scotia (BISCOT) | Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society; and
independent botanical artists who don't belong to an organisation

They have all come together in order to organise and present an exciting exhibition of botanical art in Scotland in May 2018.

Below are the details of the Call for Entries. More details will follow in January 2017.

You can also find details of the exhibition and the Call for Entries on the Botanical Art Exhibitions in the UK page on this website.

Flora Scotia

The title of the Scottish Exhibition is Flora Scotia: Worldwide Botanical Art Exhibition. Linking People to Plants through Contemporary Botanical Art.

The emphasis of each exhibition (one per country) is on NATIVE Plants. These are those which are indigenous. The definition for the purposes of the worldwide exhibition is as follows.

Any wild plant indigenous to a country, including natural hybrids, but excluding any cultivar, man-made hybrids and naturalised exotics.
ASBA Worldwide Exhibition Info

Cirsium vulgare by Janet Watson

Call for Entries

This is a call for artists to register interest in participating in a juried exhibition of artworks of native Scottish plants. This will form Scotland's contribution to a worldwide exhibition of contemporary botanical art in 2018.

Details are included in the Call For Entries which can be read online or downloaded as a pd file (see below).

You need to know:

Open to all artists resident or having studied in Scotland.
Each artist can enter only one country's exhibition, and that exhibition should be the one held in the country of the artist’s current residence.

Submission Dates: 1 October 2017 through November 27 2017

Wales - a similar initiative

A similar initiative is being pursued in Wales. Anybody interested in getting involved should contact Polly O'Leary.

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Award winners at 19th Annual International Botanical Art Exhibition of ASBA & The Hort.

18/12/2016

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"The 19th Annual International Botanical Art Exhibition run by the American Society of Botanical Artists with the Horticultural Society of New York ("The Hort") opened in New York at the beginning of last month at the 1stdibs gallery in the New York Design Centre.

This is the last week of the exhibition - it closes on Friday 23rd December 2016.

You can see the name of the artists whose work was selected for the exhibition - including links to their websites - in my previous post Profiles of Selected Artists for 19th International (ASBA and The Hort.). This organises information about the artists by the country where they live.

This post summarises the Awards and who won them

Julia Trickey's Leaves from Bath Botanic Garden feature on the Hort's website feature promoting the exhibition

Awards

The jurors who selected the artwork and decided who got the awards 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 artwork winning awards and the names of the associated botanical artists are listed below.

You can click the link in the title of the work to see the back story and click the link embedded in the artist's name to visit their website.

Awards

The Horticultural Society of New York’s Best in Show Award ($500): 'Chaenomeles sp., Quince' (10.5 x 10.5 in, watercolor on paper) by Lizzie Sanders
ASBA Eleanor Wunderlich Award ($500) - 'Iris germanica Bearded Iris' (Watercolor on paper) by Rosalind Allchin (I'm not quite sure why but the link to the back story does not go to the painting awarded the prize - so I've not included it)
Helen Gray Garber Award ($500) - Purple Popcorn Zea mays ‘Strawberry’ (Watercolor and Gouache on Paper 21” x 23) by Linda Medved Lufkin
Richmond and Lili Bates Award for Excellence In recognition of an Artist by a Fellow Artist ($300) - 'Leaves from Bath Botanical Garden' by Julia Trickey
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Award for a Print or Drawing ($250) - 'Angelica' (aquatint etching with chine collé) by Monika deVries Gohlke

Julia Trickey with 'Leaves from Bath Botanic Garden' - photographed at the SVA Annual Exhibition in 2013.

Honourable Mentions

In addition there were also three honourable mentions as follows:

Fritillaria imperialis 'Rubra’ Crown Imperial ‘Rubra’ (Watercolor on Vellum) by Dianne Sutherland
Dancing Duo Entry Number 34- A Portrait of an Heirloom Tomato Solanum lycopersicum (Watercolor on Paper 9.5” x 12.5”) by Asuka Hishiki
Hippeastrum ‘Ferrari’ (Watercolor on Vellum 13.5” x 9.5”) by Karen Kluglein

You can see the remaining artworks and read about their back stories by clicking the links on this list of artists selected for the exhibition.

The exhibition closes on the 23rd December.

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

13/7/2016

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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.

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)

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

If you'd like an image of your artwork added in to this post please contact me and email me the image.

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

Blog Posts: 18th Annual International hosted by ASBA and the Hort

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