a NEW PAGE about e-books, e-booklets and digital guide providing instruction in botanical art and illustration

e-Booklets and downloadable digital Guides
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Have you produced an eBook or digital Guide?
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The Education Page

This section covers tuition and learning opportunities around the world and online ​for those who prefer to "go it alone".

Two of the pages for self-directed learning

This section is for those who want to access formal / structured learning opportunities by:
* travelling to classes, courses and workshops where they live, in their own country or around the world
* OR access formal tuition either online - for those who can use digital technology - or via correspondence.

Two of the pages relating to more formal instruction opportunities - online and around the world

The Best Instruction Books
about Botanical Art and Illustration 

Some of my botanical art instruction books

Our digitally connected world is profoundly image led yet the practice of botanical image making, and types of image commissioned is little changed in several hundred years. Laurence Hill uses examples from the Fritillaria Icones Project, to look at structuring images for online use and wider uses within botanical science and science communication.

More about botanical photography
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More about Laurence Hill
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In simple terms I photograph plants and share them with others but by applying a set of carefully considered rules these photographs have a value which goes beyond this unassuming act. For more than a decade I have used digital technologies to explore new ways of recording and presenting botanical science and I am particularly interested in how a systematic photographic approach can produce new insights. Similarly how digital image ‘sets’ as voucher specimens will enhance and extend the value of research. We need to consider how we present, link and verify digital data and the Fritillaria Icones website is my contribution to this emerging field. 

Laurence Hill with his intensely botanical and extremely well presented exhibit of Fritillaria affinis and a discussion and demonstration of plant variability relative to the agreed taxonomic description of one species of a wild plant

Introduction to the Distance Learning Page

Distance Learning is method of studying without the student needing to attend a school or college.
Lessons are normally conducted via correspondence. 
Dialogue with the student is normally written communication in terms of guidelines/assignments provided
Artwork is normally submitted by post or email with feedback via post or email
​Face to face contact is typically either limited or non-existent.
(Introduction)

From the new website page about Distance Learning Courses for Botanical art - by post and email

A still frame from the ABBA video "Three B's Episode 2 - Complex Flowers"

Episode 1: Simple Flowers

There is something more important than knowing what parts of the plant are called and that is what does it really look like. This requires detailed anatomical observation. Where possible, it is really useful to see the plant growing in the wild. Get to know the habitat, location with respect to other plants and if it is the same species, how the form can change depending on where it grows.

Episode 2: Complex Flowers

Understanding how the flower is put together is the first step in producing a great piece of artwork that is botanically accurate.