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VIEW ARCHIVE: RHS Botanical Art Shows 2007-2021 This includes:
VIEW Exhibit Titles at RHS Botanical Art Shows - categorises the titles of past gold medal winning exhibits. You may be surprised at the result.... READ Tips from RHS Gold Medal Winners in the Education section |
The RHS Botanical Art & Botanical Photography Show 2022 is being held at the Saatchi Gallery over a period of c. 3 weeks in April 2022.
It now is much more on an exhibition and much less like of the very popular event at which botanical artists from all over the world met one another.
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Botanical illustration emphasises the depiction of accurate botanical information with aesthetic appeal and should document the anatomical and functional aspect of a plant through its lifecycle. Artists are strongly advised to paint from living plant specimens and to make use of photographs for reference only.
RHS Shows: Regulations and Guidance - This tells you "How to be approved to exhibit" and "How to Exhibit"
RHS Botanical Art Shows - Future - provides notes about future shows READ about Exhibit Titles at RHS Botanical Art Shows - the titles of past gold medal winning exhibits have been categorised. You may be surprised at the result.... RHS Botanical Photography Shows - tap the link to find out more on this site |
LEARN FROM PAST GOLD MEDAL WINNERS
READ Tips from RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners (in EDUCATION). These include:
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RHS London Botanical Art and Photography Show
In 2020, the botanical art show at the RHS Horticultural Halls (Lindley Hall) was CANCELLED until further notice due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. In 2021, the RHS relocated the Botanical Art Show in 2021 to the Saatchi Gallery in London where an exhibition was held - menu artists - for three weeks. This is the RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show SELECTION MEETING FACTSHEET 2022
This was the RHS Guidance Exhibition FactSheet for Botanical Art 2020 Who can exhibit:
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Botanical Illustration is a genre of art that endeavours to faithfully depict and represent the form, colour and detail of a plant, identifiable to species or cultivar level. |
If you want to exhibit between 2020 and 2025
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Apply to Exhibit at the next
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See RHS Photography Exhibition for details of how to submit botanical photography. |
For more on how to exhibit see below. |
The RHS webpage about the Exhibition of Botanical Art
aims to provide everything you need to know to help you
Including a link to: The Selection Meeting Factsheet 2022 (PDF) which sets out all the rules and regulations and "how tos" READ MORE BELOW about
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Botanical Illustration is a genre of art that endeavours to faithfully depict and represent the form, colour and detail of a plant, identifiable to species level. |
A very high standard of work (equivalent at least to a Silver RHS medal) is required to be selected to display botanical illustration at a RHS show.
RHS Botanical Art Show Exhibitor Factsheet 2019
To be able to exhibit you must first be APPROVED TO EXHIBIT by the RHS Picture Committee. In other words your botanical artwork must be formally assessed to see if it meets the standard for exhibition.
READ RHS Botanical Art Show #1 Approval to Submit - which is my blog post containing information approved by the Picture Committee for publication Getting approval to submit involves submitting work to the Picture Committee by the deadline for submission.
The deadline for submission is not always obvious or announced but is generally around about September. This year it is 28 June 2022 Once you are approved to exhibit you then have five years to APPLY FOR SPACE TO EXHIBIT at a specific exhibition - otherwise you have to be assessed and approved again. This is because the Picture Committee recognises that many people's projects often take two to three years to complete. |
2022: Selection for New Exhibitors
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Selection criteria |
Emphasis is placed primarily on botanical accuracy in combination with aesthetic appeal. Artists should present examples of their work that is of the highest quality and has been completed in recent years. |
- Four original examples of botanical illustration, mounted but not framed, should be sent to the Picture Panel Secretary before the selection meeting. Artists from overseas should send actual-size unmounted prints of their work. Rolled in a poster tube. Prints cannot be returned.
- Each piece should be labelled with the artist’s name and address, and the subject of the drawing. These works do not need to be on a theme.
- Group exhibitors should ensure that one piece from each artist is submitted.
- RHS Guidance on Submission to Exhibit applications
Botanical illustration emphasises the depiction of accurate botanical information with aesthetic appeal and should document the anatomical and functional aspect of a plant throughout its lifecycle. Artists are strongly advised to paint from living plant specimens and to make use of photographs for reference only.
Exhibiting at RHS Shows
Below are images of the"Best Exhibits" at four RHS Botanical Art Shows in the Lindley Hall (2015-2018)
IMPORTANT NOTE: During the Pandemic, the 2020 Show was cancelled, and the shows in 2021 and 2022 were held at the Saatchi Gallery where exhibits were framed and the amount of explanatory text was reduced to 150 words. HOWEVER key points about exhibits remain the same Commonalities that I can observe are that:
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SEE MORE IMAGES OF PAST SHOWS BOTANICAL ART AND ARTISTS RECOMMENDS Become very familiar with the standard of Gold Medal winning artwork. You can see more images of exhibits in past shows in
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BOTANICAL ART AND ARTISTS RECOMMENDS
THEME
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EXHIBIT TITLES BOTANICAL ART AND ARTISTS RECOMMENDS - VIEW Exhibit Titles at RHS Botanical Art Shows This dedicated page CATEGORISES and HIGHLIGHTS Exhibit Titles used by botanical artists who have won RHS Gold Medals in recent years MOST Gold Medal winning exhibits fall into just two of the categories! |
Only artists who have been accepted by the Picture Panel are eligible to apply for space.
Applications for space to display exhibits of botanical illustration should be made using the online application form emailed by the RHS Shows Department. Botanical illustration is exhibited at London and Malvern Shows. Contact details for eligible artists are automatically sent to the RHS Shows Department following acceptance by the Picture Panel.....
You can only apply for space in an RHS Botanical Art Show IF:
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IF THE EXHIBITION RETURNS TO ITS TRADITIONAL HOME AT THE LINDLEY HALL You need to bear in mind that:
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Gold medals are only awarded to displays of outstanding and consistent excellence.
There are four types of Royal Horticultural Society Medal available for awards to exhibits. These are:
In addition, THREE additional awards have been made in recent years if an exhibit merits them:
Plus a Special Judges Award in 2018 |
The Judging Panel currently includes experienced practising botanical artists and teachers, botanists, an art collector, horticultural experts and garden writing editors.
The aim is to achieve the right combination of skills.
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Whether or not you get the plant name correct - and write the Latin correctly - actually matters a lot!
Judging Criteria (2020)
The headings for the Judging Criteria for Shows in the Lindley Hall were described as follows in the 2020 Factsheet as follows: Quality of Botanical Illustration
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In 2022, The Selection Meeting Factsheet provides much clearer guidance on the Judging Criteria as follows. The subtitles in capitals are mine.
BOTANICAL ARTWORK 1. Drawing skills
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PLANTS
5. Botanical details
EXHIBIT OVERALL / PRESENTATION Balance of exhibit
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Katherine Tyrrell interviews Denise Ramsay after winning an RHS Gold Medal for her botanical art exhibit of "A Brilliant Life - Papaver Orientale" at the RHS Show in the Lindley Hall, London on 22nd October 2014.
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The complete suite of works exhibited are now owned by Dr Shirley Sherwood - and have subsequently been exhibited at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew
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