NEWS about Botanical Art and for Botanical Artists

Society of Botanical Artists: Plantae 2024 now online

3/6/2024

This year the Society of Botanical Artists have opted to have an ONLINE EXHIBITION in place of an annual exhibition in a gallery.

This post is about how you can see it - by thumbnail, artwork or artist!

ABOUT PLANTAE 2024

Plantae 2024 is now available to view online - until 30th June 2024.

To view the artworks you need to click the link in the TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER of the website. I found it takes rather a long time to load - but that's doubtless due to the very many images of artwork which you can see online!

You have the option to:

view by artist - which, if you have favourite artists, avoids having to page through to find your favourites. At the end of this blog post, you can see a list of all the participating artists
view by artwork - each artwork has a page to itself - and this also provides a bit more access to information about the artist (if they've provided it).
view by Thumbnail which enables you to see the range of artwork on display online

You can also view the artworks created by the students and graduates of our Distance Learning Diploma Course - on a completely seperate page on this link DLDC Plantae Gallery 2024

If you are interested in purchasing any of the artwork on display, you need to contact the artist direct via the "Enquire about this artwork" button. Note that there are variations in what's on offer:

some are selling originals drawings, paintings or fine art print - framed or unframed
some are also selling reproduction digital prints - for a very reasonable sum

Thumbnail images of some of the artwork being exhibited in SBA Plantae 2024

Participating Artists

The names of the participating artists are listed below - in alphabetic order of their (last) surname. I've taken the liberty of changing the order of some of the names (currently out of sync with the alphabetical order) so they can be found more easily

You will see that:

not all are members of SBA - and I've emboldened all those who are Fellows of the SBA
there's a LOT of international artists - with a strong bias towards those from South East Asia
many are names well known from past SBA Annual Exhibitions
some are being VERY self-effacing - as in the ones who have won an RHS Gold Medal (and MULTIPLE RHS Gold Medals!) I feel like outing them by putting their GMs in the list!
and some are very new - and hence participating for the first time.

PLUS I've spotted a number of names of artists who are participating in this year's RHS Show which opens next week (see my last post Artists exhibiting at the RHS Botanical Art Show 2024)

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ONLINE Botanical Art Exhibitions updated + new ARCHIVE page

4/1/2023

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I've just completed a major update of Online Botanical Art Exhibitions listed on Botanical Art and Artists. You can find content on

the main page Online / Virtual Exhibitions of Botanical Art and Illustration
the NEW ARCHIVE PAGE - which contains links which enable access to past exhibitions which are still available online

I'm expecting these pages to become an increasingly important record of exhibitions of botanical art and illustration as more and more organisations examine how they can display artwork on an appropriate platform. I'm hoping to write further on this latter topic in a future blog post.

Online / Virtual Exhibitions of
Botanical Art and Illustration

This page details:

CURRENT/RECENT Exhibitions - Typically all exhibitions listed in the current calendar year
UPCOMING Online Exhibitions - if these are notified to me in advance of 'publication'. There is also a form which you can use to provide the information asked for a listing.
how to find the ARCHIVE LISTING - including exhibitions still available online
ADVICE & TIPS for organisations planning future online exhibitions - this provides
- information and advice about the relevant considerations and practical aspects related to online exhibitions
- rules associated with selling botanical art online - and then getting it safely to the buyer.
- I'm very happy to add in links to advice sheets or other information about how to make life simple for those creating online exhibitions. Do please contact me or use the form at the bottom of the page.

You can find this page listed as "Online Exhibitions" second from the top of the menu under Exhibitions in the top line menu of the Botanical Art and Artists website.

ARCHIVE 2018 - 2022:
Past Online / Virtual Botanical Art Exhibitions

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