 Pinus jeffreyi Jeffrey Pine - Branch and cone. Watercolour by Nicola Macartney The exhibition Green Gold: Plants from the Travels of John Jeffrey has opened in Edinburgh. Venue: Gateway Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Dates: 27th April - 30th June 2019 Time: 10:00 - 17:45 Admission: FREE The exhibition celebrates the life and achievements of plant hunter John Jeffrey. It focuses on his travels in North America in the middle of the nineteenth century. Below you can find out more about:
Paintings of plants collected by John Jeffrey The exhibition includes six especially commissioned watercolour paintings by Nicola Macartney featuring trees and flowering plants collected by Jeffrey in North America. I met Nicola last July when she was exhibiting her suite of six paintings at the RHS Botanical Art Show - where she won a Silver Gilt Medal for her exhibit (see below). Her paintings were created from specimens of plants growing in the Royal Botanic Garden at Edinburgh and Benmore. - quite possibly from the cones and seeds sent back by Jeffrey to Scotland.  "Plants Collected by John Jeffrey" - exhibit at the RHS Botanical Art Show by Nicola Macartney  Nicola Macartney standing next to her watercolour painting of Pinus jeffreyi - the Jeffrey Pine The exhibition also includes plus materials from RBGE including specimens from the Herbarium, and letters and minutes from their archives. About John Jeffrey John Jeffrey was born in Forneth, Parish of Clunie in east Perthshire. He worked as a gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A Scottish group known as the Oregon Association (established 1849) appointed him to travel to North America and find trees and collect their seeds. The intention was that he would continue the efforts of botanist David Douglas (1799–1834) who made three separate trips from Britain to North America. (The Oregon state tree is named after him - its common name being Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii, once Pinus douglasii). Jeffrey's travels involved:
The odds were stacked against John Jeffrey from the start. The distances to be travelled across British Columbia and the Rocky Mountains were extraordinary, while the territory itself was challenging due to the extreme cold, high altitude, and unrest among Native American tribes While exploring he sent the specimens he collected back to Scotland and kept journals of his travels. He discovered 24 new species many of which now grow in the gardens of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh and Benmore. Thanks to his work however the seeds from 119 species were collected and more than 400 plant specimens sent to the Herbarium at RBGE, including seeds and/or specimens of 35 conifer species. Two plant species still bear his name, Dodecatheon jeffreyi and Pinus jeffreyi while a third,Penstemon jeffreyanus, was later renamed by botanists In 1854 he disappeared while travelling east from San Diego across the Colorado Desert. Despite attempts to find him, he was never seen again. Below is a video by Gabriel Hemery illustrating the extent of his travels REFERENCES:
Green Gold (the book)The exhibition is associated with the publication of Green Gold by Gabriel Hemery. Gabriel Hemery is the author of
Below are two videos
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I'm always really pleased when I see botanical artists exhibiting their artwork in the annual exhibitions of national art societies which show a range of fine artwork. Botanical artists who enter and get selected for open exhibitions of national art societies raise their profile and can impress art galleries on the lookout for new artists! In addition, one is never really promoting botanical art when merely preaching to those who are already converted! Botanical art needs to shown more widely if others are to see what wonderful work is done in the name of botanical art. The open exhibitions of national art societies are a jolly good place to start to stimulate the consciousness of new buyers.. It's for this reason I'm very pleased to highlight
 Crop of Dryopteris sieboldii (painting 390mm x 262mm | framed 730mm x 535mm | Watercolour on Fabriano 5 | copyright Marianne Hazlewood) Marianne Hazlewood has had two of her botanical paintings selected for the 121st Annual Exhibition of the The Society of Scottish Artists. You can see them hanging in the exhibition which opened its doors to the public today - 23rd December 2018 - at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy. (see link to exhibition)  Crop of Dryopteris affinis (painting: 390mm x 262mm | framed: 730mm x 535mm | Watercolour on Fabriano 5 | copyright Marianne Hazlewood Details are below if you plan to visit. Venue: The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL (How to visit) Dates: 23 Dec 2018 – 17 Jan 2019. (CLOSED 25 & 26 DEC) Hours: Mon-Sat: 10am – 5pm, Sun: 12pm – 5pm (1 Jan: 12pm – 5pm) Entry: £2, SSA Members FREE, children and young people FREE Blog posts are emailed to you when you Subscribe to Botanical Art & Artists - News by Email Emails are only sent to you after you have activated the link you will receive. Other Open Exhibitions for Watercolour Artists |
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Plus a number of plants are named after her, including:
- Heliconia chartacea var. meeana - which has vivid blue berries
- Aechmea polyantha - a vaselike Bromeliad discovered by Margaret Mee
On About Margaret Mee you can find out about:
- A Timeline of her life and work
- Margaret Mee and the Amazon Flora
- Margaret Mee's Paintings - and her approach to painting
- Exhibitions of Margaret Mee's paintings - in the UK, USA and Brazil
- The Margaret Mee Trust and Fellowship Programme
Videos and Slideshows of her work
On Monday I went to see the four new botanical art exhibitions at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens. I'll be reviewing them all individually on this blog in future but today I thought I'd give you a taster of what can be seen - so you start planning a visit!
The four new exhibitions run from 6 October 2018 – 17 March 2019 and have a couple of over-arching themes
The four new exhibitions run from 6 October 2018 – 17 March 2019 and have a couple of over-arching themes
Orchids and tropical plants
Orchids and tropical plants are featured in the first two exhibitions
- Rankafu: Masterpieces of Japanese Woodblock Prints of Orchids (Galleries 1 and 2) - this is the first exhibition as you walk in through the main entrance
- Botanical Theatre: The Art of Pandora Sellars (1936-2017) (Galleries 3 and 4) - This is very likely to be extremely popular with all experienced botanical artists and aspiring students. Her works features a lot of tropical plants and orchids (and cyclamens, lilies and arum) and a lot of foliage.
The Botanical Theatre of watercolour paintings by Pandora Sellars
Mark Frith: A Legacy of Ancient Oaks (Gallery 5) 7 of the 20 oaks on display
Trees
The tree theme is particularly relevant to the Charter of the Forest in its 800th anniversary year.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: This is one of the best combination of exhibitions that I've seen here. There's a lot of excellent quality art to look at - I found it quite overwhelming - and it's really difficult to take it all in on one visit. So think very seriously about:
PS You will need a magnifier or a loupe to properly appreciate some of the paintings in these exhibitions. If you forget yours, you can borrow one from reception.
- Mark Frith: A Legacy of Ancient Oaks (Gallery 5) - in the large square central gallery
- Trees: Delight in the Detail (Gallery 6) - the first exhibition you encounter when approaching from the Marianne North Gallery.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: This is one of the best combination of exhibitions that I've seen here. There's a lot of excellent quality art to look at - I found it quite overwhelming - and it's really difficult to take it all in on one visit. So think very seriously about:
- planning enough time for your visit
- or maybe even planning more than one visit!
PS You will need a magnifier or a loupe to properly appreciate some of the paintings in these exhibitions. If you forget yours, you can borrow one from reception.
Rankafu: Masterpieces of Japanese Woodblock Prints of Orchids
View of the exhibition of Rankafu wood block prints of orchids
These impressive and very beautiful woodblock prints of orchids are based on the watercolours of Zuigetsu Ikeda. They were first published in 1946.
Rankafu means as ‘Orchid Flower Album’. These prints are on loan from the Collection of Stephen Kirby and this is first major exhibition of the Rankafu woodblock colour prints outside of Japan.
Woodblock printing of this quality is technically demanding and the exhibition includes a display explaining how they are produced.
Rankafu means as ‘Orchid Flower Album’. These prints are on loan from the Collection of Stephen Kirby and this is first major exhibition of the Rankafu woodblock colour prints outside of Japan.
Woodblock printing of this quality is technically demanding and the exhibition includes a display explaining how they are produced.
Botanical Theatre: The Art of Pandora Sellars
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - This is an exhibition NOT TO BE MISSED.
It's unlikely you'll ever see its like again.
Many experienced botanical artists will need no introduction to the late Pandora Sellars. She has been described by Shirley Sherwood as “One of the most important botanical artists of all time[1]” and “the best leaf painter ever”. Others would characterise her as being one of the best botanical artists when it comes to tackling a complex composition which shows off the botanical features of a plant to best effect.
However very few will have ever seen more than a few examples of her artwork in person.
This exhibition is unique and a wonderful opportunity to
Those who do not know about Pandora Sellars can read all about her and her botanical artwork in About Pandora Sellars (1936-2017) my dedicated page on this website.
The artwork is on loan from:
It's unlikely you'll ever see its like again.
Many experienced botanical artists will need no introduction to the late Pandora Sellars. She has been described by Shirley Sherwood as “One of the most important botanical artists of all time[1]” and “the best leaf painter ever”. Others would characterise her as being one of the best botanical artists when it comes to tackling a complex composition which shows off the botanical features of a plant to best effect.
However very few will have ever seen more than a few examples of her artwork in person.
This exhibition is unique and a wonderful opportunity to
- view a retrospective of c. 50 artworks and items produced from her art - just a small percentage of the artwork she produced over a period of nearly 40 years.
- note how her artwork developed over the years - between 1972 and 2007
- see the scope of her work - from botanical illustration commissions for Kew and other publishers to botanical artworks produced for her own pleasure.
Those who do not know about Pandora Sellars can read all about her and her botanical artwork in About Pandora Sellars (1936-2017) my dedicated page on this website.
The artwork is on loan from:
- Kew Collection (17 works)
- Shirley Sherwood Collection (8 works)
- RHS Lindley Library (1 work)
- Cyclamen Society (7 works)
- Postal Museum (5 works)
- Private Collections (12 works - plus her painting materials
- Plus a selection of books containing botanical illustrations by Pandora Sellars
Mark Frith: A Legacy of Oaks
Six of the Veteran Oaks drawn by Mark Frith - in Gallery 5
This is an exhibition of a series of 20 highly intricate, large-scale graphite drawings of Britain’s most characterful veteran oaks, many of which are more than 1,000 years. The trees are shown in winter - devoid of all leaves and new growth.
They were drawn by Mark Frith who studied Fine Art at Bristol before becoming a BAFTA award-winning filmmaker before starting to draw his first tree in 2011.
The series were commissioned by publisher, poet, and philanthropist, Felix Dennis. After he died, ten trees were gifted to the Kew Collection and ten are now owned by the Heart of England Forest - founded by Felix Dennis.
They were drawn by Mark Frith who studied Fine Art at Bristol before becoming a BAFTA award-winning filmmaker before starting to draw his first tree in 2011.
The series were commissioned by publisher, poet, and philanthropist, Felix Dennis. After he died, ten trees were gifted to the Kew Collection and ten are now owned by the Heart of England Forest - founded by Felix Dennis.
Trees: Delight in the Detail
View of "Palms" - one small section of "Trees: Delight in Detail"
This exhibition leans very much towards looking at the details of trees rather than the tree as a whole - and different approaches used to paint the details of trees.
The artwork represents trees from all over the world - from temperate areas and the tropics - and the detail of their leaves, cones, flowers, fruits, seeds and nuts.
Sizes vary enormously according to real life but also due to enlargement employed to show the detail of a particular aspect.
The artwork comes from the Shirley Sherwood Collection - collected from artists from all over the world. Artists include:
The artwork represents trees from all over the world - from temperate areas and the tropics - and the detail of their leaves, cones, flowers, fruits, seeds and nuts.
Sizes vary enormously according to real life but also due to enlargement employed to show the detail of a particular aspect.
The artwork comes from the Shirley Sherwood Collection - collected from artists from all over the world. Artists include:
- UK: Jenny Brasier, Brigid Edwards, Annie Farrer (2 works), Flappy Lane Fox, Katherine Manisco, Rory McEwen (2 works), Margaret Mee (2 works), Barbara Oozerally, Jess Shepherd, Julie Small (2 works)
- Australia: Jenny Phillips
- Austria: Jakob Demus
- Brazil: Maria Alice de Rezende, Alvaro Nunes (7 works)
- Germany: Regine Hagedorn,
- India: Arundhati Vartak
- Japan: Mariko Ikeda, Mieko Ishikawa, Kimuyo Maruyama (2 works), Michiko Toyota
- Philippines: Emmanuel Cordova
- Russia: Olga Makrushenko
- South Africa: Gill Condy, Ann Schweizer, Vicki Thomas
- Thailand: Phansakdi Chakkaphak
- USA: Monika de Vries Gohlke; Anne Ophelia Dowden, Ingrid Finnan, Hillary Parker,
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Cover and spine of "The Greenwood Trees" by Christina Hart Davies
This is a review of 'The Greenwood Trees - History, Folklore and uses of Britain's trees' by Christina Hart-Davies - a slim volume that is essentially about the native trees of the UK.
By the time I got to the end I realised that the book she has written and illustrated reminded me a lot of many of the early Herbals - which describe and identify plants - including illustrations - and identify what they are associated with and what they are used for. Both her previous book and this one are focused on telling you what a plant/tree is good for as well as what it looked like. It goes way, way beyond a book of botanical illustrations
It is in effect a contemporary version of what we refer to in botanical literature as Herbals. It is packed full of information and illustrations about the different native trees. What's more Christina has written all the text, which references facts and beliefs from very many of the books from the past - from Dioscorides onwards - and painted all the illustrations in watercolour
Overall, the book is enormously informative, very interesting and very accessible - it and can be enjoyed by young and old, by those interested in nature and trees and by those interested in different ways of representing and painting trees.
For example it includes snippets of information e.g.
Who knew the aspen was one of the earliest trees to re-colonise the UK after the Ice Age?
By the time I got to the end I realised that the book she has written and illustrated reminded me a lot of many of the early Herbals - which describe and identify plants - including illustrations - and identify what they are associated with and what they are used for. Both her previous book and this one are focused on telling you what a plant/tree is good for as well as what it looked like. It goes way, way beyond a book of botanical illustrations
It is in effect a contemporary version of what we refer to in botanical literature as Herbals. It is packed full of information and illustrations about the different native trees. What's more Christina has written all the text, which references facts and beliefs from very many of the books from the past - from Dioscorides onwards - and painted all the illustrations in watercolour
Overall, the book is enormously informative, very interesting and very accessible - it and can be enjoyed by young and old, by those interested in nature and trees and by those interested in different ways of representing and painting trees.
For example it includes snippets of information e.g.
- 90% of a tree is dead; and
- the number of acorns buried each year by birds and small mammals in the UK may total 1.5 billion!
Who knew the aspen was one of the earliest trees to re-colonise the UK after the Ice Age?
Aspen Trees in Autumn © Christina Hart-Davies
The book covers 37 different varieties of tree, of which 31 are natives of the UK i.e. they were around 6,000 years BC when the waters started to rise again after the Ice Age.
The book has five sections:
The book has five sections:
- a brief history of trees in Britain - which is absolutely fascinating. I learned a LOT about how trees grew and were managed over the different periods within UK History!
- people and trees - this section took me back nearly 60 years to my primary school days when I was learning about how early man lived and the sorts of tools and products he used to make from trees.
- trees and beliefs - about the various tree spirits, creation myths, symbols and festivals associated with trees
- things that live in trees - about the community of insects, birds and small mammals that live in and with trees - as well as the fungi and parasites also living in trees and in some cases attacking them.
- The Greenwood Trees i.e. the very old trees associated with the Wildwood. This is by far the biggest section. This section also has the most botanical illustrations which are quite delightful.
About "The Greenwood Trees"
Whitebeam Berries © Christina Hart-Davies
Marking the 800th anniversary of the Forest Charter, award-winning botanical artist Christina Hart-Davies celebrates our long relationship with trees. Since pre-historic times they have provided us with shelter, fuel, medicine, food and even the air we breathe. They have tanned leather, dyed cloth and made everything from cathedrals to clothes-pegs. We have told stories about them, admired their magnificent beauty and woven them into our spiritual lives. Following A Wild Plant Year, which recorded the folklore and cultural history of our native wildflowers, in The Greenwood Trees Christina looks at the history, folklore and virtues of our native trees – and a few well-known introductions too – all illustrated with her exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings.
The book was published at the end of last month by Two Rivers Press who published Christina's earlier book A Wild Plant Year: The History, Folklore and Uses of Britain’s Flora
It is naturally printed on paper which is FSC certified as coming from a responsible source!
Title: The Greenwood Trees: History, Folklore and Virtues of Britain’s Trees
Author/Artist: Christina Hart-Davies
format: paperback
size: 200 x 200 mm / 7.875 x 7.875 in (square format)
ISBN: 978‑1‑909747‑40‑1
pages: 120
price: £ 15.99
Publication date: September 2018
You can obtain the book as follows:
It is naturally printed on paper which is FSC certified as coming from a responsible source!
Title: The Greenwood Trees: History, Folklore and Virtues of Britain’s Trees
Author/Artist: Christina Hart-Davies
format: paperback
size: 200 x 200 mm / 7.875 x 7.875 in (square format)
ISBN: 978‑1‑909747‑40‑1
pages: 120
price: £ 15.99
Publication date: September 2018
You can obtain the book as follows:
- an ordinary copy from Two Rivers Press direct
- a signed copy (with postage included) direct from Christina Hart-Davies
- an unsigned copy from Amazon UK
About Christina Hart-Davies
Christina Hart-Davies with her most recent RHS Gold Medal display of "Common British Corticolous Lichens"
Christina Hart-Davies has been a professional botanical artist for 30+ years.
- She has five RHS Gold Medals (4 for mosses and lichens - in 1984, 1986, 1988 and 2018 -and one for orchids - in 1992). The last two lichen Gold Medals were 20 years apart - proving (like Kathy Pickles did) that it's never too late to have another go!
- She has also illustrated for a wide variety of prestigious clients and publications. Her artwork has been extensively published. Publishers she has worked with include Crowood Press; Dorling Kindersley; Elm Tree Books; Gilgamesh Publishing; Hamlyn; HarperCollins; Michael Joseph; Longman; Macmillan/RHS; New Holland; Pyramid/Octopus; Two Rivers Press; Virgin Publishing. Publications include: BBC Wildlife Magazine; British Wildlife; Kew Magazine; Successful Gardening (Eaglemoss Publications); Sunday Times
- She was a Founder Member - and Honorary Secretary for its first ten years - of the Society of Botanical Artists.
- Botanical artist to an expedition to the rainforests of Sumatra
- She has artwork in The Hunt and The Shirley Sherwood Collections - and mine (I own two of her works)!
- She is also an occasional tutor on various courses in the UK
Apple by Christina Hart-Davies (there are a number of similar illustrations in the book for different trees)
Botanical art enthusiasts in Italy can visit the Florentia International Exhibition of Botanical Art (29th September - 7th October 2018).
It's the first international exhibition of contemporary botanical art in Florence. It will showcase
It's the first international exhibition of contemporary botanical art in Florence. It will showcase
- approximately 80 original botanical watercolours
- by well known botanical artists coming from Italy and 11 different countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands, Russia, United Kingdom, United States).
Poster for the First International Exhibition of Botanical Art in Florence
Title: Florentia International Exhibition of Botanical Art
Catalogue: available
Venue: Villa Bardini, Costa S. Giorgio, 2-4, 50125 Firenze FI, Italy
Dates: September 29 - October 7, 2018
Opening hours: 10.00am - 7.00pm, Tuesday to Sunday. Free entry on the first Sunday of the month.
Sponsors: Società Toscana di Orticultura/Tuscan Horticultural Society - on the occasion of the traditional "Autumn and Plant Market Exhibition"
Purpose of the Exhibition
Florentia is intended as an opportunity to foster collaboration and sharing between participating artists, raise awarness of this artistic genre and demonstrate the contemporary botanical art renewed vitality, especially in Florence, in the wake of an ancient and prestigious tradition.
In the Medicean Florence, thanks to the interest of the Grand Dukes both for botany and art, great artists such as Jacopo Ligozzi and Giovanna Garzoni, were called to represent, in beautiful watercolor and gouache, the best of the floral and fruit crops and the most precious medicinal plants.
Organisers
The Florentia exhibition is co-organized by two Tuscan botanical artists:
Catalogue: available
Venue: Villa Bardini, Costa S. Giorgio, 2-4, 50125 Firenze FI, Italy
Dates: September 29 - October 7, 2018
Opening hours: 10.00am - 7.00pm, Tuesday to Sunday. Free entry on the first Sunday of the month.
Sponsors: Società Toscana di Orticultura/Tuscan Horticultural Society - on the occasion of the traditional "Autumn and Plant Market Exhibition"
Purpose of the Exhibition
Florentia is intended as an opportunity to foster collaboration and sharing between participating artists, raise awarness of this artistic genre and demonstrate the contemporary botanical art renewed vitality, especially in Florence, in the wake of an ancient and prestigious tradition.
In the Medicean Florence, thanks to the interest of the Grand Dukes both for botany and art, great artists such as Jacopo Ligozzi and Giovanna Garzoni, were called to represent, in beautiful watercolor and gouache, the best of the floral and fruit crops and the most precious medicinal plants.
Organisers
The Florentia exhibition is co-organized by two Tuscan botanical artists:
- Simonetta Occhipinti GM who lives and works in Florence, and
- Giuliana Gallo who was born in the island of Elba but lives in The Netherlands and is a member of the Dutch Society of Botanical Artists
Simonetta Occhipinti GM with part of her Gold Medal winning exhibit of The Citrus of the Medici Family
Kathy Pickles GM's new solo show "Flowers and Fruit" opened yesterday in the Exhibition Room of the Old Library in Kirkwall on the Isle of Orkney in Scotland. It continues until 13th October 2018 and is open Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm.
Her solo exhibition contains 64 botanical paintings in watercolour - mostly on paper but with some on vellum. 24 paintings were sold at the Preview Evening and another 8 in the gallery yesterday morning so Kathy got to the half way mark in terms of sales after the preview and 3 hours of being open to the public! I gather her paintings on vellum are going fast!
If you're starting a collection, I'd very much recommend you take a close look....
My experience of Kathy's paintings in the past are they priced to sell - and she almost always sells nearly all of them!
You can also read more about Kathy Pickles at the end of this post.
Her solo exhibition contains 64 botanical paintings in watercolour - mostly on paper but with some on vellum. 24 paintings were sold at the Preview Evening and another 8 in the gallery yesterday morning so Kathy got to the half way mark in terms of sales after the preview and 3 hours of being open to the public! I gather her paintings on vellum are going fast!
If you're starting a collection, I'd very much recommend you take a close look....
My experience of Kathy's paintings in the past are they priced to sell - and she almost always sells nearly all of them!
You can also read more about Kathy Pickles at the end of this post.
Flowers and Fruit
While not everybody can get to Orkney to see the exhibition, you can see most of the work in the show on Kathy's Facebook Page - Kathy Pickles Botanical Art or her website at www.kathypickles.co.uk. Plus she is a regular participant in the Botanical Artists Facebook Group where she also posts her new work.
Kathy works - very fast - from observation (and never from photographs) and her paintings follow the seasons and what she's growing in her garden!
Kathy works - very fast - from observation (and never from photographs) and her paintings follow the seasons and what she's growing in her garden!
Crops of Botanical Paintings by Kathy Pickles - on her website
About Kathy Pickles
Kathy Pickles GM - with her 7th Gold Medal exhibit at the RHS London Botanical Art Show 2017
Kathy Pickles was born in London but has lived on Orkney since 1981. Her art education started with a Foundation Course at Canterbury College of Art. She also studied textile design at Winchester School of Art before going to Sussex University where she gained a degree in the History of Art.
She has won seven RHS Gold Medals (1991-94, 1996, 2015, 2017) - which is more than any other botanical artist I know!
Other achievements in the botanical art world include:
Prestigious Botanical Art Collections which own her work include:
Her professional combines fine art with botanical illustration for commercial purposes and since 1994, she has designed over 150 designs for floral mugs for Dunoon Ceramics - including designs containing Scottish Wild Flower which included some Orkney favourites such as Primula scotica, Northern Marsh Orchid, Yellow Flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus) and Oyster Plant (Mertensia maritima).
She has been having solo shows on Orkney for the last 30 years and also works to commission.
She has won seven RHS Gold Medals (1991-94, 1996, 2015, 2017) - which is more than any other botanical artist I know!
- Her Gold Medal in 2015 was for 16 paintings of Fritillaria and Helleborus
- The Gold Medal in 2017 was for 12 paintings of Clematis. Rachel de Thame bought one of her paintings!
Other achievements in the botanical art world include:
- She has also exhibited in a three person show at the Kew Gardens Gallery (1995-96)
- She designed the 1997 Chelsea Flower Show Plate which celebrated the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip. Later that year she was invited by Orkney Islands Council to meet the Prince of Wales and show him her original painting while he was in Orkney viewing the work of a number of local artists and craftsmen.
- her study of Mertensia maritima was one of the paintings of endangered species included in the special 250th anniversary edition of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
Prestigious Botanical Art Collections which own her work include:
- The Royal Botanic Garden Kew
- The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,
- the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh and
- the Shirley Sherwood Collection.
Her professional combines fine art with botanical illustration for commercial purposes and since 1994, she has designed over 150 designs for floral mugs for Dunoon Ceramics - including designs containing Scottish Wild Flower which included some Orkney favourites such as Primula scotica, Northern Marsh Orchid, Yellow Flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus) and Oyster Plant (Mertensia maritima).
She has been having solo shows on Orkney for the last 30 years and also works to commission.
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This page Botanical Art & Artists on my main blog has an archive of blog posts about past exhibitions of the Society of Botanical Art and Artists
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