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It shares information about botanical art - societies, collections, books and other resources which support the development of botanical art.
Its subject matter will interest botanical fine art enthusiasts, students of botanical art and/or art history, botanists or plant scientists, art historians, artists/botanical artists and art and plant lovers.
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- National Botanical Art Societies
- Regional and Local Botanical Art Societies
- Making A Mark - in botanical art
- The Shirley Sherwood Gallery opens at Kew
- News about the new Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew
- BOOKS: Botanical Art Books by Shirley Sherwood
- Botanical Art Instruction
- BOOKS: Interested in developing your skills in Botanical Art?
- Botanical Art Exhibitions
- Botanical Art Competitions and Awards
- Curtis's Botanical Magazine
- Examples of Botanical Art
- BOOKS: Books featuring great examples of Botanical Art
- A list of florilegia and botanical codices
- Botanical Art Books, Herbals and Florilegium
- BOOKS: Early books of drawings of plants and flowers
- Outstanding Botanical Artists - in Art History
- Outstanding Botanical Artists - Contemporary
- Botanical Art Galleries
- Botanical Gardens and Horticultural Societies in the UK and Europe
- Botanical Gardens in North America
- BOOKS: Painting the wild flowers of the USA
- Botanical Gardens in Australasia and the Pacific Rim
- Botanical Gardens in Africa and Asia
- Botanical Societies
- Botany for botanical artists
- Botanical Art Blogs
- Botanical Art Forums
- Botanical Art - Resources for Artists: Reader Feedback
National Botanical Art Societies
If you want to make contact with the botanical art society in your own country check the links below - more will be added in due course.
- The Society of Botanical Artists
- The Society of Botanical Artists was founded in 1985 by the president Suzanne Lucas. This UK Society celebrated its 21st birthday in 2006 and has an annual exhibition in London. It also offers a distance learning course in botanical art.
- American Society of Botanical Artists
- The American Society of Botanical Artists, Inc. (ASBA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting public awareness of botanical art and to encouraging the development of this continuing artistic tradition.
- Botanical Art Society of Australia
- The Botanical Art Society of Australia (BASA) has been formed as a non-profit organisation to foster and promote the development of botanical art nationwide and to bring together people who have a love of plants and of the botanical art form.
- Botanical Artists of Canada
- Formed on 2001, this not-for-profit organization supports members through workshops, courses and critiquing sessions. Their quarterly newsletter informs members of upcoming opportunities to exhibit their work or to take courses offered through BAC or by others. They also promote public awareness and appreciation of botanical art through juried exhibitions.
- Botanical Artists' Society of Southern Africa
- This is the website of a group of South African botanical artists who share their experiences, techniques and information
- Society of Dutch Botanical Artists
- There soon will be an English version of this site available soon. More information is available from info@botanischkunstenaarsnederland.nl
- Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
- The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators is an organization of people employed or interested in natural science illustration.
Regional and Local Botanical Art Societies
- Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California
- The Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California is dedicated to encouraging the development of botanical art and the promotion of public awareness of this artistic tradition.
Making A Mark - in botanical art
posts about botanical art from Katherine Tyrrell's blog
Katherine Tyrrell's blog about: - Making marks with pastels, pencils and pen and ink - Creating new drawings and paintings - Influences on developing both artwork and art careers - Interviews with artists - Information about resources for artists and art lovers ....and best viewed in Firefox
- Making a Mark: The Society of Botanical Artists is 21!
- (March 2006) The Society of Botanical Artists is 21 and has its annual exhibition at Westminster........Over 700 pictures are going to exhibited and the link to the exhibition (above) provides images of some of these. A number of these push the boundaries of what many people might think a conventional botanical flower drawing or painting should look like. I'm personally very pleased to see that there's room for all manner of interpretations.
- Making a Mark: Review of the SBA Exhibition
- (April 2006) I visited the Society of Botanical Artists exhibition yesterday and was totally blown away by the very fine quality of most of the artwork shown. There are some very impressive and accomplished artists exhibiting with the SBA - including a number of coloured pencil artists.
Most of the artwork is in watercolour with a good showing of coloured pencil and pencil work, although the exhibition also includes work by people painting in oils and pastels. The website while clearly demonstrating the breadth of work fails to reflect so clearly the very high quality of a lot of the work on display due to the small size of the website images. - Making a Mark: Society of Botanical Artists - Flowers and Gardens Exhibition 2007
- (April 2007) The annual Flowers and Gardens exhibition by the Society of Botanical Artists at Central Hall Westminster maintained its very high standard this year and reflected the Society's willingness to include a wide variety of approaches and media for the representation of botanical art including fruit, vegetables and fungi as well as flowers and gardens.
On display were 728 drawings and paintings, 11 Miniatures, and 26 sculptures. As last year, most of the artwork in the exhibition is executed in watercolour. Other media used included Pencil, Coloured Pencils (including watercolour pencils) Acrylics, Pastels, Ink, Oil, Lino Cut Prints and Gouache on black paper - Making a Mark: Society of Botanical Artists - The Botanical Palette exhibition
- (April 2008) I visited the 22nd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists (SBA) yesterday. This year, the Society is celebrating the publication of its second book and its title is reflected in the title of the exhibition "The Botanical Palette".
- Making a Mark: NEW: The Botanical Palette: Colour for the Botanical Painter
- (November 2007) Getting the colour right is one of the main challenges for a botanical artist. Consequently it can also be one of the aspects of which causes the most worry to aspiring botanical artists.
Last month a new instruction book was published which focuses solely on the subject of how to achieve the right colour in botanical art. It provides a very authoritative and helpful guide to this topic - and will doubtless be welcomed by all those seeking to develop and improve the quality of their botanical art. - Making a Mark: Treasures of Botanical Art - a recommended read
- (April 2008) Treasures of Botanical Art by Shirley Sherwood and Martyn Rix has been published by Kew Publishing to mark the inaugural exhibition of the The Shirley Sherwood Gallery in Kew Gardens, the first gallery in the world to be dedicated to year round exhibitions of botanical art.
The book is extensively illustrated and features some 200 illustrations of paintings and drawings from both the Kew and Shirley Sherwood collections.
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery opens at Kew
a new gallery dedicated to the display of botanical art
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens, opening on 19 April 2008, is the first gallery in the world dedicated to botanical art and will be open to the public all year round. The gallery will exhibit precious works of art from the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Dr Shirley Sherwood, many of which have never been on public display before.The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew holds one of the world's greatest collections of botanical art, totalling over 200,000 items. Kew holds works by masters of botanical art such as G D Ehret and the Bauer Brothers, together with nineteenth century artists such as Walter Hood Fitch, who was one of the most prolific botanical artists ever. Dr Shirley Sherwood holds one of the world's most comprehensive collections of original contemporary botanical art.
Many of the works in Kew's collection require a climate-controlled environment with managed light levels. Until now, although the collection has been consulted by experts and researchers, most of the works have been kept in study collections behind the scenes. The new gallery will provide the right environment and will make Kew's collections more accessible, ensuring that the 1.3 million annual visitors to Kew Gardens can see the treasures on public display.
News about the new Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew
- Making a Mark: Kew opens the world's first dedicated botanical art gallery
- On Saturday 19th April, The Shirley Sherwood Gallery opened at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. It will exhibit precious works of botanical art from the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Dr Shirley Sherwood.
This is a record of my visit to the exhibition and focuses on some of the artists in history whose botanical art is included in the exhibition - Royal Botanic Gardens Press Release: New Gallery of Botanical Art Opens at Kew Gardens, Spring 2008
- Press Release: New Gallery of Botanical Art Opens at Kew Gardens, Spring 2008
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens, opening in spring 2008, will be the first gallery in the world dedicated to botanical art and open to the public all year round. The gallery, designed by award-winning architects Walters and Cohen, will exhibit precious works of art from the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Dr Shirley Sherwood, many of which have never been on public display before. - The Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens reveals the beauty of botany - Times Online
- Until this month, the world's premier collection of botanical art, consisting of some 200,000 drawings, watercolours, oil paintings and prints, had been kept filed away in drawers and boxes in the Library at Kew Gardens.
- Daily Telegraph - Kew's £3m gallery to showcase botanic art
- It is one of the great secret art collections of Britain - and finally it has a home where the public can enjoy it. Costing £3 million, it will allow the public to see for the first time the gems in the Royal Botanic Gardens's vast holding of more than 200,000 prints, drawings and paintings dating back to 1700.
- Digging up treasures: Kew shows off plant pictures in new gallery | Arts | The Guardian
- Garden's display space, with low light and humidity control, is the world's first gallery dedicated entirely to botanical art - opens at Kew Gardens in London.
- BBC NEWS | UK | Kew opens botanical art gallery
- The world's first gallery dedicated to botanical art opens to the public. Includes a news video which shows shots of the gallery and close-ups of works on display.
- Kew opens the world's first gallery for botanical art - News, Art & Architecture - The Independent
- Until now, Kew Gardens' collection of 200,000 botanical drawings and manuscripts have only been available to experts and researchers who have had to apply for permission to study the works.
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery is the world's first purpose-built space for botanical drawings - many of which are extremely delicate watercolours on paper and vellum.
Walters and Cohen, the architects, were given a brief to create a space that would protect the art works with dim light levels, a constant temperature of 21C and 55 per cent humidity. - Making a Mark: Treasures of Botanical Art - a recommended read
- Treasures of Botanical Art by Shirley Sherwood and Martyn Rix has been published by Kew Publishing to mark the inaugural exhibition of the The Shirley Sherwood Gallery in Kew Gardens, the first gallery in the world to be dedicated to year round exhibitions of botanical art.
The book is extensively illustrated and features some 200 illustrations of paintings and drawings from both the Kew and Shirley Sherwood collections.
BOOKS: Botanical Art Books by Shirley Sherwood
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Dr Shirley Sherwood is a driving force behind a renewed interest in botanical art. She has developed a very fine collection of botanical art by twentieth century botanical artists and also writes about botanical art.
She read botany at Oxford University and is a judge on the Botanical Painting Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, Kew, and an honorary trustee of the new American Society for Botanical Artists.
I own copies of all the following books - and all come highly recommended by me.
She read botany at Oxford University and is a judge on the Botanical Painting Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, Kew, and an honorary trustee of the new American Society for Botanical Artists.
I own copies of all the following books - and all come highly recommended by me.
Contemporary Botanical Artists: The Shirley Sherwood Collection
According to Publishers Weekly "Dr. Shirley Sherwood toured the world over a period of five years. The result is more than 100 stunning pieces that offer a global view of contemporary botanical art. "Descriptions combined with sumptuous, full-page illustrations make this a book that will appeal to botanists, or anyone who just wants to page through delicate and beautiful images."
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A Passion for Plants: Contemporary Botanical Masterworks
Shirley Sherwood provides over 200 examples of the best in contemporary botanical art
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New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art
This catalogue of the 2005 exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is a remarkable book. It compares images produced by contemporary botanical artists with those produced in the past.
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Treasures of Botanical Art
This book marks the inaugural exhibition of the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew, which opened on 19th April 2008 (I was there!). It has about 200 colour some 200 paintings and drawings from both the Kew archive and the Shirley Sherwood Collection of contemporary botanical art which are in the exhibition.
Overall it provides an overview of the development of botanical art since the 1600s and highlights some of the premier artists and some of the treasures of botanical art in both collections.
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Botanical Art Instruction
- The Society of Botanical Artists - Courses by Members
- Botanical Illustration and/or Botanical Painting Courses Run by Members of The Society of Botanical Artists.
- The Society of Botanical Artists - Courses in botanical art by institution
- The Society of Botanical Artists lists all the courses of which it has knowledge but cannot recommend one venue over another. However, the Society obviously recommends those venues which feature SBA members as tutors. SBA members are highlighted in the listing.
- Botanical Illustration in Colour
- Rosemarry Wise is the botanical artists at the Department of Plant Sciences at Oxford University. In this link she offers a step-by-step guide to botanical illustration in watercolour.
- Cambridge University Botanic Garden: Adult education courses
- Cambridge University Botanic Garden - Adult courses include botanical art and painting. Note courses seem to become fully booked quickly.
- Guild of Natural Science Illustrators: GNSI Summer Workshop
- Guild of Natural Science Illustrators' 2007 Summer Workshop Workshops and Instructors
The Pierce Cedar Creek Institute June 17 - July 23, 2007 - Leonie Norton, Botanical Artist and Tutor, Australia
- Leonie Norton is an Australian botanical artist and is Sydney's most prominent botanical art educator. Her paintings can be found in private and public collections, in Australia and overseas.
- Katie Lee - Botanical Painter - Teaching Schedule
- Katie Lee is a respected botanical and wildlife artist and instructor. A graduate of the New York Botanical Garden Botanical Illustration program, she has been an instructor at that institution for the past 15 years. Ms. Lee teaches drawing, watercolor, gouache and composition courses at various locations worldwide
- Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute
- ASDM Art Institute - Conservation Through Art Education
- Denver Botanic Gardens - Botanical Art and Illustration Program
- Denver Botanic Gardens' Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration Program is designed to teach the skills necessary to portray plants accurately both for scientific purposes and for beautiful plant illustrations. The program is ope
- Guild of Natural Science Illustrators: GNSI Summer Workshop
- 2008 Summer Workshop Pierce Cedar Creek Institute
Hastings, Michigan
Tentative Dates: June 15-28, 2008
This coming Summer in 2008, the GNSI Summer Workshop will once again be held at the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute, a privately-run ecological education/research - The New York Botanical Garden - Botanical Art Instruction
- Download a copy of their latest programme of courses in botanical art and illustration. Courses in botany also available.
- The Arboretum of Los Angeles County - Botanical Illustration Classes
- Botanical art encompasses scientific accuracy and artistic detail. The Arboretum is privileged to offer a variety of botanical illustration classes for the beginner to the experienced student wishing to fine tune their skills.
- Education Desert Botanical Garden - Botanical Illustration
- The Botanical Art and Illustration programme at the Desert Botanical Garden is suitable for a variety of interests, whether you are a beginner with no experience or an enthusiast seeking to enroll in the certificate program, all are welcome. Courses are taught by talented, experienced instructors in the field of botanical art. Course sizes are limited to 15 students to ensure a personalized and encouraging atmosphere.
- Garden Design courses - The English Gardening School
- Short Courses; Diploma Courses; Distance Learning at the English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London
BOOKS: Interested in developing your skills in Botanical Art?
Books from Amazon
There's a lot of 'how to' books about drawing and painting flowers. I own all four of the books listed below - and these were chosen as they provide a wealth of excellent information about how to develop your knowledge about and skills in botanical art.
The Art of Botanical Painting
I own this book by one of the founder members of the Society of Botanical Art. Margaret Stevens holds numberous RHS medals including the prestigious Gold Medal. This book provides a complete course of instruction in how to develop botanical art and is used as a reference by the Society's own distance learning course. It includes techniques for using coloured pencils
Release Date: 11/01/2005
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The Botanical Palette
The second book produced by the Society of Botanical Artists with Margaret Stevens. I've just got this and it looks absolutely splendid - a real asset for anybody who is serious about developing their skills in botanical art
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Botanical Illustration Course: With the Eden Project
This book is a complete drawing course. It brings together the lessons learned in the year-long botanical illustration course at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
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Beautiful Botanicals: Painting and Drawing Flowers and Plants
A good introduction with lots of practical hints and tips. This book covers working with graphite pencil, pen and ink, ink wash, transparent watercolour and mixed media
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Botanical Illustration: Painting with Watercolours
Guidance for the botanical artist working in watercolour. Includes a nice chapter which brings to life the trials and tribulations of the botanical artist!
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Painting Flowers in Watercolour: A Naturalistic Approach
Coral Guest has been awarded two gold medals by the RHS and was Flower Painting Tutor at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew from 1991 to 2002, and has given Master Classes for Dr Shirley Sherwood in Europe and the USA.
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Botanical Art Exhibitions
Information and guidelines for entering exhibition and competitions
Have you ever wondered what the guidelines are for entering botanical art exhibitions? This section aims to provide links to available information on the internet.
- Royal Horticultural Society - Exhibition of botanical art at RHS Shows
- This page contains details of the exhibition of botanical art at RHS shows
- Royal Horticultural Society - Guidelines for exhibiting botanical art at RHS shows
- This page contains guidelines for exhibiting botanical art at RHS shows
- Royal Horticultural Society - Regulations for exhibiting botanical art at RHS shows
- This page contains the regulations for exhibiting botanical art at RHS shows
- The Society of Botanical Artists - how to exhibit
- This webpage provides details of how to become a member and how to exhibit with The Society of Botanical Artists in London. Note that the Annual Exhibition in April each year is also open to non members from all over the world.
- New York School of Interior Design: Watercolors from the Highgrove Florilegium
- Watercolors from the Highgrove Florilegium
Botanical Paintings from the Garden of HRH The Prince of Wales
January 23 - April 12, 2008
NYSID Gallery, 161 East 69th Street
An exhibition of 75 watercolors of plants, fruits, and vegetables growing in the garden at Highgrove, the Gloucestershire residence of HRH The Prince of Wales. The works depict a selection of botanical varieties from the 15-acre garden. The show, organized according to botanical classification, marks the first public display of the watercolors, which are owned by A. G. Carrick Ltd and loaned with the kind permission of HRH The Prince of Wales. - 1000 Years Of Botanical Art At Oxford's Ashmolean Museum - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
- The Eldon and McAlpine Galleries at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford are, until September 11 2005, home to a stunning collection that spans over 1,000 years of botanical art from all over the world.
- Hunt Institute: Past Exhibitions
- Past exhibitions at the Hunt Institute.
Botanical Art Competitions and Awards
- Margaret Flockton Award 2008 - Botanic Gardens Trust - Sydney, Australia
- The Margaret Flockton Award is open to Australian and overseas artists producing scientific botanical illustrations of a high standard.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
published for the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew by Blackwell Publishing
Now well over two hundred years old, the Magazine is the longest running botanical periodical featuring colour illustrations of plants.
Each four-part volume contains 24 plant portraits reproduced from watercolour originals by leading international botanical artists. Detailed but accessible articles combine horticultural and botanical information, history, conservation and economic uses of the plants described.
Each four-part volume contains 24 plant portraits reproduced from watercolour originals by leading international botanical artists. Detailed but accessible articles combine horticultural and botanical information, history, conservation and economic uses of the plants described.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Data and Publications: curtis's botanical magazine
- Curtis's Botanical Magazine provides an international forum of particular interest to botanists and horticulturists, plant ecologists and those with a special interest in botanical illustration.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine has been published continuously since 1787.
Currently published for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Blackwell Publishing
Print ISSN: 1355-4905
Online ISSN: 1467-8748
Frequency: Quarterly (February, May, August and November) - Blackwell Publishing - Curtis's Botanical Magazine
- Published on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
List of issues back to 1999
Examples of Botanical Art
Please remember the copyright to all images belongs
- Society of Botanical Artists (UK) - Members Gallery
- See the work produced by the members of the Society of Botanical Artists
- American Society of Botanical Artists - Members Gallery
- Click on the members names to see their websites
- Botanical Art Society of Australia - Members Gallery
- Click an image for a larger view and a members profile
- Botanical Artists of Canada - Members' Gallery
- To visit a member's gallery, click on a name and to find a biography, images of drawings or paintings, and contact information for the artist.
- Botanical Artists of Souther Africa - Members Gallery
- This gallery contains examples of botanical art produced by the members of BAASA and short biographies of the artists represented
- Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution
- The Department of Botany of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History has created a database of the more than 3000 botanical illustrations curated by the department's scientific illustrator, Alice Tangerini.
- Curtis Botanical Magazine
- William Curtis (1746-1799) was a trained pharmacist living in London, whose greater interest was the study of flora and insects. He maintained a large garden where he grew beautiful exotic plants, and began publishing the Curtis Botanical Magazine in 1787. This digital presentation represents one thousand fifty records, one thousand forty-eight plates, (two of the original plates are missing, plates 797 & 860),
and there are one thousand four hundred fifty-six related pages of text from the first 26 volumes. - Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
- Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation promotes the history of botany through its collections, research, exhibitions, publications, and services.
- Botanical Art and Images, Botany Department, Smithsonian Institution
- Botanical art at the Smithsonian.
- Victoria & Albert Print Room - Botanical Illustration
- Images and information about the art of botanical drawing from the 15th century to the present day.
- The Endeavour Botanical Illustrations at the Natural History Museum
- The voyage of HMS Endeavour (1768-1771) was the first devoted exclusively to scientific discovery. This site presents most of the botanical drawings and engravings prepared by artist Sydney Parkinson before his untimely death at sea, and by other artists back in England working from Parkinson's initial sketches
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Library & Archives
- The Library has more than 200,000 prints and drawings, including original works of art in various media. These range in date from the great masters of botanical illustration of the 18th century, such as G.D. Ehret, P.J. Redouté and the Bauer brothers, through to Thomas Duncanson, George Bond and Walter Hood Fitch in the 19th century. The holdings include a high proportion of the early originals prepared for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, together with the work of 20th century contributors
- Cincinnati Historical Society - Hauck Collection Highlights
- From Seed to Flower: Selected Books from the Cornelius J. Hauck Botanical Collection at the Cincinnati Historical Society Library
- An overview of the botanical paintings of Christine Brodie
- (Extarct from Microscopy-UK Micscape Microscopy and Microscopes Magazine: Micscape Magazine for enthusiast microscopy)
Christine Brodie recently completed work on an instruction book about botanical painting, titled Drawing And Painting Plants, to be published by A & C Black in October 2006. The book takes a novel approach in that not only painting and drawing methods, but techniques such as dissection, collection of plants, environmental studies, microscopic work and botanical nomenclature are all covered. Students not only learn how to study and paint flowering plants, but the whole plant kingdom, including coniferous trees, fungi, ferns, mosses, seaweeds and lichens. - The Endeavour Botanical Illustrations at the Natural History Museum
- Search the "The Endeavour" Botanical Illustrations online
- WOMEN AND NATURE: Illustrators & Colorists
- WOMEN & NATURE exhibition 2001
Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BOOKS: Books featuring great examples of Botanical Art
Flowers of the Amazon Forest: The Botanical Art of Margaret Mee
Margaret Mee is a botanical artist extraordinaire!
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The Lilies
The work of Pierre Redoute was my first introduction to botanical art was
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The Roses: Pierre-Joseph Redoute, 1759-1840 (Jumbo)
French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute is regarded as one of the best of the botanical illustrators. From 1817 until 1824 he completed the three volumes of "Les Roses", his most celebrated work. This book contains 30 postcards of his roses.
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Florilegium Imperiale: Botanical Illustrations for Francis I of Austria
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The Art of Flowers: A Celebration of Botanical Illustration, Its Masters and Methods
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A list of florilegia and botanical codices
On Wikipedia
A timeline of illustrated botanical works to 1900.
Botanical Art Books, Herbals and Florilegium
This section is about historical and contemporary botanical art books - such as herbals and florilegia
- Hortus Sanitatis
- The Hortus Sanitatis or the Ortus Sanitatis (the origin of health), as it is also known, is in the tradition of the medieval herbals. It is partly based on Der Gart der Gesundheit (Garden of Health), which is sometimes attributed to Johann von Cube, and was originally printed by Peter Schoeffer at Mainz in 1485.
Most of the 1,066 chapters of the first edition are headed by a woodcut and there were also several full page woodcuts - Showcases - Landmarks in Printing :: Hortus Eystettensis
- In 1611, the Prince Bishop of Eichstätt in Germany determined to record for posterity the spectacular garden he'd created at his palace in Bavaria with plants from around the world. Hundreds of his favourite flowers where carefully drawn and engraved as they bloomed through the four seasons. Published in 1613, the finished catalogue was the largest and most magnificent florilegium ever made.
- Florilegium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Florilegium (plural Florilegia) is a Latin word for a collection of 'flowers' (excellent excerpts), from the corpus of a considerably larger oeuvre. ...
- World Wide Words: Florilegium
- However, florilegium first appeared in the English language in 1711 in a sense nearer the literal one: describing a collection of flower illustrations. ...
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium
- The earliest florilegia-anthologies of illustrations describing living collections of flowering plants-first appeared 400 years ago. ...
- The Prince of Wales - The Highgrove Florilegium is published
- The Highgrove Florilegium is published 21st April 2008
Two of The Prince's passions, horticulture and painting, have been combined in a new book, The Highgrove Florilegium.
The Highgrove Florilegium is a collection of more than 120 original prints from watercolour paintings celebrating the gardens at Highgrove, and represents the culmination of over six years work. All proceeds from the book will go to charity. - Highgrove: the florilegium returns
- Combining craftsmanship and royal patronage, the Highgrove Florilegium (which has taken a mere seven years to produce) records the plants growing at the Prince of Wales' home in Gloucestershire.
- A Modern British Florilegium | The New York Sun
- The plant studies of Leonardo and Dürer move us not just as remarkable works of art, but also by the faith they show in the accord between artistic and scientific inquiry. Expectations of art and science have changed since the Renaissance, but the practice of botanical art continued to flourish, most notably in the 17th through 19th centuries, in the form of florilegia - collections of images of plants from a particular garden. A handsome exhibition at the New York School of Interior Design focuses on this traditional genre, with 74 contemporary watercolors loaned by permission of one of today's better known traditionalists: HRH the Prince of Wales.
(Includes slideshow) - Alecto Publications: Highgrove Florilegium
- The Highgrove Florilegium
BOOKS: Early books of drawings of plants and flowers
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Besler's Book of Flowers and Plants: 73 Full-Color Plates from Hortus Eystettensis, 1613 (Pictorial Archive Series)
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A Garden of Flowers: All 104 Engravings from the Hortus Floridus of 1614 (Dover Pictorial Archives)
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Botanical Prints from the Hortus Eystettensis: Selections from the Most Beautiful Botanical Book in the World
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Outstanding Botanical Artists - in Art History
- Franz (Francis) Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)
- Born in Feldsburg, Austria, Franz was the older brother of Ferdinand Bauer, the famous botanical artist. After arriving in England in 1788, Sir Joseph Banks employed Franz as a botanical artist at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
For the next 40 years, Bauer illustrated the newly discovered plants from around the world that were introduced to England via Kew, where they were grown and studied for the first time in a scientific manner. - Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826)
- Ferdinand Bauer is internationally regarded as an outstanding botanical artist. His depictions of the Australian flora and fauna, which he made during the voyage of HMS Investigator (1801-1803) under the command of Captain Flinders, represents one of the greatest achievements in the annals of natural history art.
- Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770)
- Ehret lived at a time of scientific discovery and enlightenment in Europe, a 'golden age of botanical art'. Ehret became recognised as an outstanding botanical artist. His unique style and clarity of plant illustration was immediately useful and sought out by specialists.
- Sydney Parkinson (1745? - 1771)
- Sydney Parkinson, age 22, was a member of one of the greatest scientific expeditions of all time, Captain Cook's voyage of discovery to the South Pacific (1768-1771). During two years of the voyage, Parkinson produced hundreds of drawings and sketches of the animals and plants that were discovered.
- WOMEN AND NATURE: Maria Sibylla Merian
- WOMEN & NATURE exhibition 2001
Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Maria Sibylla Merian. Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe Verlag, 1964. - Botanical art by Georg Dionysius Ehret,
- The Fitzwilliam Museum's Cambridge collection of 54 plates of botanical art created by Georg Dionysius Ehret, German Painter and Illustrator, 1710-1770
- Redouté, Pierre-Joseph (1802) Les Liliacées [Tome 1]
- The Lilies. Universities of Strasbourg - digitalised old books (SICD - Patrimoine numérisé - H790-1. This is a digital copy of an old book with colour plates of Redouté's paintings of lilies.
- Maria Sibylla Merian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Maria Sibylla Merian From Wikipedia
Maria Sibylla Merian (born April 2, 1647 in Frankfurt ? died January 13, 1717 in Amsterdam) was a naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and made detailed paintings about them. - Basilius Besler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Basilius Besler From Wikipedia,
Basilius Besler (1561 - 1629), was a respected Nuremberg apothecary and botanist, best known for his monumental Hortus Eystettensis.
The work was named Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstätt). The emphasis in botanicals of previous centuries had been on medicinal and culinary herbs, and these had usually been depicted in a crude manner. The images were often inadequate for identification, and had little claim to being aesthetic. The Hortus Eystettensis changed botanical art overnight. The plates were of garden flowers, herbs and vegetables, exotic plants such as castor-oil and arum lilies. These were depicted near life-size, producing rich detail. The layout was artistically pleasing and quite modern in concept, with the hand-colouring adding greatly to the final effect. The work was first published in 1613 and consisted of 367 copper engravings, with an average of three plants per page, so that a total of 1084 species were depicted.
Outstanding Botanical Artists - Contemporary
- The University of Delaware: The Art of Botanical Illustration. Women Illustrators
- On-line exhibition of The Art of Botanical Illustration
- ANN SWAN contemporary botanical art, coloured pencil artist
- Ann Swan contemporary botanical art, one of the UKs leading botanical artists specialising in pencil and coloured pencil drawings.
- Botanical Art of Flowers, Plants; Botanical Prints of Colored Pencil Drawings
- Botanical Art; Limited Edition of Botanical Art Prints from Raphine Virginia. Colored Pencil Drawings,Botanical Prints,wildflowers,wildflower prints,drawings of Live Flower & Plants by Sharon Morris Kincheloe
- Botanical art by Georita Harriott
- Fine limited edition botanical art prints by Cambridge based botanical illustrator Georita Harriott, one of the UK's finest botanical artists.
- Celia Rosser
- Early in her artistic career Celia Rosser began painting the uniquely Australian wildflowers with which she was intimately acquainted. In 1965 her first exhibition at Leveson Gallery in Melbourne included three watercolours of banksias. In 1967
she published her first book Wildflowers of Victoria. - Lorna Minton: botanical artist, watercolour paintings
- Lorna Minton Botanical Artist - R.H.S. Gold Medal
- Hunt Institute: Margaret Mee
- Botanical artist Margaret Mee interview broadcast in November 1988
- Hunt Institute: Frederick Andrews Walpole Collection
- Botanical artist Frederick Andrews Walpole Collection at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
- Hunt Institute: Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden Collection
- Botanical artist Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden Collection at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
- Catherine Nicholson
- Catharine Nicholson specialises in very fine pen-and-ink botanical drawing and has work in the Shirley Sherwood Collection; The Lindley Library; The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and several private collections. She is a drawing member of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society
- Peta Stockton - Botanical Artist
- Peta Stockton is a botanical artist focusing primarily on South African flora. Peta's botanical art debut was on the 2004 Kirstenbosch Biennale, where she received a Gold Medal and in 2006 she received a Gold Medal at the RHS show in London for her paintings of proteas. Peta has works in the Shirley Sherwood Collection, The Lindley Library, The Kew Royal Botanic Gardens and The Issac Sutton Collectio
- Susannah Blaxill - Botanical Artist
- Susannah Blaxill botanical art, internationally recognised as a leading artist specialising in watercolour, pencil and charcoal drawings.
- Lara Call Gastinger
- Lara Call Gastinger, Botanical Art & Illustration. RHS Gold Medal winner for a series on Plants of Virginia
- Reinhild Raistrick
- Reinhild Raistrick has won RHS four gold medals and provides tuition on botanical painting at Cambrige University Botanical Garden. Reinhild has also published a book "African Violets: In Search of the Wild Violets"
- Sherry Mitchell SFCA
- Sherry is a watercolour botanical artist, specializing in the native flora of British Columbia, Canada. Her work is included in the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Arbutus - Arbutus menziesii, received 'Best of Show' in the Botanical Artists of Canada fall exhibition 2007.
- floraleyes.co.uk - Susan Christopher Coulson, botanical artist
- Susan Christopher-Coulson. British botanical artist working in coloured pencils. RHS Gold Medalist.
- Coral Guest - Flower Painter
- Coral Guest trained in fine art (painting) at Chelsea College of Art, working with abstraction and colour theory, receiving the Drawing Prize in the first year and the Travel Scholarship in the final year. She studied drawing with Norman Blamey and Ken Howard, and, painting with Sean Scully and Ken Kiff. Her work as a flower painter began in 1979 during a succession of field trips to Europe and Japan. The Royal Horticultural Society has awarded her 2 gold medals for her paintings of bulbous plants, in which she specialises.
- Peta Stockton - Botanical Artist
- Peta's botanical art debut was on the 2004 Kirstenbosch Biennale, where she received a Gold Medal and in 2006 she received a Gold Medal at the RHS show in London for her paintings of proteas.
Peta has works in the Shirley Sherwood Collection, The Lindley Library, The Kew Royal Botanic Gardens and The Issac Sutton Collection. - Bridget Gillespie
- In 2002, Bridget Gillespie was awarded a Gold Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for a series of plum paintings, two of which now reside at the RHS Lindley Library in London.
This is a link to her suite of watercolour paintings of apples Pomona Sequence - Apples of Distinction, created for The Northern Pomona: Apples for Cool Climates. - Kate Nessler - Botanical Art
- Kate Nessler has won numerous awards, including three Gold Medals (1990, 1991, 1993) from the Royal Horticultural Society, England. In 1997 she was awarded the Award of Excellence from the American Society of Botanical Artists. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the RHS, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh PA, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, The Shirley Sherwood Collection, England, as well as in numerous public and private collections. She is a contributing member of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden Florilegium, NY, and her work has been selected for inclusion in the Highgrove Florilegium.
- Jenny Phillips - Botanical Art School of Melbourne
- Jenny Phillips,, a Gold Medallist from The Australian National Print Awards 1998, and The Royal Horticultural Society, London 1993, has focused her drawing, watercolour skills, and love of gardening on botanical art since 1971.
Botanical Art Galleries
Galleries showing botanical art
- Contemporary Botanical Art - Susan Frei Nathan Fine Works on Paper
- CONTEMPORARY BOTANICAL ART
SPECIALIZING IN AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN BOTANICAL DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS
P.O. Box 285 Millburn, NJ 07041
P 973.564.6411 F 973.467.0259 - British Contemporary Art Jonathan Cooper, Galley of fine art - including Botanical
- British Contemporary Art
Jonathan Cooper,
Galley of fine art,Botanical,Figurative,Photography,Wildlife & Sporting,London Chelsea, works of art from Sotheby's, Christie's, Bonham's, Phillip's and privately
Botanical Gardens and Horticultural Societies in the UK and Europe
Visit a botanical garden or flower show to get some ideas for new subjects!
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- I'm a Premier Friend of Kew and can highly recommend the gardens at both Kew and Wakehurst Place in Surrey both as places to visit and gardens which are worth supporting.
- Royal Horticultural Society: Gardening Online - Home Page
- I'm a member of the RHS and regularly visit their gardens at Wisley in Surrey. Check their website for details of the Chelsea Flower Show
- The Chelsea Physic Garden
- The Chelsea Physic Garden was founded in 1673, as the Apothecaries' Garden, with the purpose of training apprentices in identifying plants.
- National Botanic Garden of Wales : The National Botanic Garden of Wales - Homepage
- The National Botanic Garden of Wales has a centre for botanic science.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) is a world-renowned scientific centre for the study of plants, their diversity and conservation. The Garden offers educational courses and events for adults and children; and also trains specialists. RBGE has four Gardens, together known as the National Botanic
- Inverewe Garden in the North West Highlands of Scotland
- Inverewe Garden in the North West Highlands of Scotland - a unique botanical enterprise growing an amazing range of plants due to the Gulf Stream. I visited when young - and it's simply amazing!
- Parks and Gardens in France
- Visit the gardens and parks of France. Discover what is in each department and area on a map
- List of botanical gardens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- List of botanical gardens From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Palmengarten Frankfurt
- The Palmengarten is a trust established by the citizens of Frankfurt in 1868. On 50 acres, the gardens display numerous beautiful and interesting plants throughout the year.
The Palmengarten is known world-wide for its ample collections of tropical plants. With 5000 m2, the Tropicarium is one of the largest complexes of greenhouses. It displays tropical plants including orchids, bromelias, palms, ferns, succulents and many others. These plants are arranged largely according to their natural habitats such as rain forest, mangrove, mountain rain forest, monsoon and trade-wind forest, savannah, thorn forest and different types of vegetation approaching desert.
Botanical Gardens in North America
- The New York Botanical Garden
- On 250 acres in the Bronx, the New York Botanical Garden features 50 gardens and plant collections, a landmark conservatory, and 50 acres of the original forest that once covered New York City. Seasonal flower shows, a world-renowned scientific research program, innovative children's gardens etc.
- Chicago Botanic Garden
- Chicago Botanic Garden has 26 spectacular gardens on 385 acres.
- San Francisco Botanical Garden
- The San Francisco Botanical Garden is free and open 365 days a year. It has an excellent horticulture library, bookstore, and education programs.
- Desert Botanical Garden %uFFFD Papago Park %uFFFD Desert Plants
- The Desert Botanical Garden is a unique attraction in Phoenix, Arizona, showcasing 139 rare desert plants, endangered desert plants, and threatened desert plants from around the world and specifically the southwest Sonoran desert.
- Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Canada
- Canada has many public and botanical gardens, arboreta and related organizations, dedicated to public appreciation of the world of plants, research and conservation.
- The Arboretum of Los Angeles County
- The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden is comprised of a 127 acre botanic garden and historic area supported through the cooperative efforts of the public and private sectors. Our mission of education delivers experiences for our visitors and community to discover, learn and appreciate
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden is one of New York's most magnificent and treasured natural spaces. A tour through BBG, no matter what time of year, will be a rewarding experience, complete with an ever-changing natural palette of color, fragrance, beauty, and design.
- Bellevue Botanical Garden, Washington
- The Bellevue Botanical Garden, Bellevue, Washington comprises 53 acres of display gardens, woodlands, meadows and wetlands.
- Denver Botanic Gardens
- Denver Botanic Gardens also has three satellite gardens; all are a mile high.
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Botanical Gardens in Australasia and the Pacific Rim
- Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens Home Page
- A directory of all botanic gardens and arboreta in Australia, contact information etc.
- Australian National Botanic Gardens Home Page
- All about the Botanic Gardens, Australian plants, and access to databases on living plants, herbarium specimens and photographs.
- Botanic Gardens Trust - Sydney, Australia
- The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney are an oasis of 30 hectares in the heart of the city. Wrapped around Farm Cove at the edge of Sydney Harbour, they occupy one of Sydney's most spectacular positions. Established in 1816, it's the oldest scientific institution in Australia and is home to an outstanding collection of plants from Australia and overseas.
Botanical Gardens in Africa and Asia
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
- One of the world s leading botanical gardens. Founded in 1913, Kirstenbosch lies on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. It consists of landscaped gardens of indigenous plants and trees, watered by the Liesbeek River, as well as natural forest that extends up the lower slopes. Kirstenbosch covers an area of 828Ha, 60 ha of which are cultivated; the remainder is a natural flora reserve.
Botanical Societies
These societies are about the botany of flowers and plants
- Botanical Society of the British Isles
- The Botanical Society of the British Isles is for everyone who is interested in the flora of Britain and Ireland. The society traces its origins back to 1836, when it was founded as the Botanical Society of London. From its earliest days it has welcomed both professional and amateur members, and it remains the biggest and most active organisation devoted to the study of botany in the British Isles.
- Botanical Society of the British Isles - Publications
- Watsonia is the scientific journal of the BSBI, published twice a year.
Various handbooks plus BSBI News - The Wildflower Society
- The Wild Flower Society is the only national society created specifically for amateur botanists and wild flower lovers in the UK. We are a friendly group who like to meet up throughout the summer months to see and photograph British wild plants in their natural habitats. The Society has been running for over a century and proudly boasts a number of very eminent botanists and academics amongst our ranks with at least fourteen members having plants named after them!
- The Wildflower Society - List of all British Plants 2007
- List of all British Plants 2007
Botany for botanical artists
- ArtPlantae: Home Page
- The Home of Practical Botany for Artists
- ArtPlantae: Amaryllis Family
- The Home of Practical Botany for Artists: Practical introduction to the Amaryllis
- Natural History Museum - Botany Library
- The Botany Library collection represents the entire modern period of botanical scientific discovery. It contains monographic titles dating from 1475, periodical titles dating from the late 1700s, manuscripts and an outstanding collection of botanical artwork, which is one of the largest in the country.
The literature held gives world subject coverage in floras, plant taxonomy, economic botany, botanical art, history and biography for flowering and non-flowering plants. - Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem
- The museum specializes in the display of botanical exhibits and is the only one of its kind in Central Europe. It is complementary to the botanic garden since models are highlighting morphological details that are not easily visible on living objects. Highly magnified algae and other cryptogams as well as the flowers, fruits, and seeds of higher plants are shown.
- RogersPlants
- Roger's Plants Limited has been established to publish electronically a series of illustrated natural history and garden plant information sites covering all the major plant groups, thus creating the largest existing reference work on plants.
This gigantic project is based on more than 25 years work by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix, the authors of more than 30 illustrated guides to the whole plant flora.
Botanical Art Blogs
Blogs by Botanical Art Societies or Information Sites
This is for blogs which are oriented around information for botanical artists
- BAGSC News
- A Blog from the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California
- ArtPlantae Today
- ArtPlantae Today is the companion site to ArtPlantae.com and ArtPlantae Books. This blog, the educational website and the bookstore were each created by ArtPlantae LLC, a resource provider specializing in botany and botanical art education whose objective is to encourage an interest in plants and nature through botanical illustration.
- Coral Guest - the EXHIBITION DIARY and PAINTER'S JOURNAL of life amongst the flowers
- Coral Guest is a gold medal winning botanical artist who works to commission and has a fascinating website
Botanical Art Forums
- Flickr: Botanical Art & Naturalist Illustration
- Photographs associated with the Yahoo Group
- Yahoo Group: Botanical Art and Naturalist Illustration
- Dedicated to the realistic portrayal and documentation of plants and flowers (the Botanical Arts) and natural science subjects (Naturalist Arts, Wildlife Arts, Scientific Illustration).
- Botanical Artistry | botanical art and artists
- BotanicalArtistry.com is a resource for botanical artists and lovers of botanical art. It contains information on all kinds of botanical art - painting, illustration and prints. Members can display their art.
Pastels and Pencils - Drawings of Flowers and Plants
Katherine Tyrrell's website
The links below will take you to drawings of floral and botanical subjects in the different galleries on my website.
The first link is to the 'gateway' page which contains links to all the galleries which follow
The first link is to the 'gateway' page which contains links to all the galleries which follow
- Pastels and Pencils - Fine art drawings & fine art prints of flowers and plants
- Fine art drawings and fine art prints of flowers and plants by Katherine Tyrrell - pictures of flowers in coloured pencil, soft pastel and pen and ink
- Pastels and Pencils - Fine art drawings of flowers in colour by Katherine Tyrrell
- Original fine art drawings of flowers by Katherine Tyrrell - drawings in colour using soft pastels or coloured pencil
- Pastels and Pencils - Small Works: Floral and Botanical Drawings by Katherine Tyrrell
- Small Works - original fine art drawings of floral and botanical subjects in coloured pencils flowers and plants by Katherine Tyrrell
- Pastels and Pencils - Flower drawings and botanical drawings in pen and ink or pencil
- Flower drawings and botanical drawings in pen and ink or graphite pencil by artist Katherine Tyrrell. These drawings of flowers or botanical subjects were all drawn from life. These drawings do not involve tracing, copying photos or use of grids.
- Pastels and Pencils - Drawings of plants and cacti by Katherine Tyrrell
- Drawings of plants and cacti by Katherine Tyrrell. This gallery is about what plants - and in particular cacti and succulents - look like in close-up
- Pastels and Pencils - Fine Art Prints of original drawings by Katherine Tyrrell ASGFA
- Fine art prints of original art by Katherine Tyrrell, this page links directly to specific fine art print galleries of works by Katherine Tyrrell at Imagekind
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Intuitive
I love botanical art. I did watercolors of flowers while getting my art degree many years ago and always wished I could study botanical art technique. I joined a couple of botanical/natural history art listservs when the 'Net was new and that scared me away, though. Way too precise for me. :) Great lens! 5 * Posted April 09, 2008 |
Margaret Best
This is a great lens. Pleased to see you give recognition to our great BAGSC blog designed by member Deb Shaw. This is a resource already bookmarked. Margaret Best www.bestbotanical.com
Posted March 25, 2008
samar
I'm trying to buy a book "an approach to botanical painting" by Anne Marie and Donn Evans. Please could someone tell me if they know of a bookshop that would have a copy with a new or second hand copy. Thankyou
Posted March 14, 2008
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LeslieBrenner
Excellent lens with lots of information, thanks. Posted February 24, 2008 |
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makingamark
Hi Anne - The Society of Botanical Artists in the UK have a distance learning course which you may be interested in. You can find their site right at the top of Botanical Art Socities module above. Posted February 07, 2008 |
Anne Bradley
I am not able to attend a college but would very much like to study Botanical Illustration by distance/on-line. Does anyone know of a regognized school? I would evenually like to join a Botanical Artist Society. Thank you.
Posted February 06, 2008
cherian m t
Great and comprehensive resource . Could not find any resource from the tropic and sub tropic region . did I miss it? www.alappuzhaonline.com
Posted January 23, 2008
J. Santos
What a wonderful resource. Thanks!
Posted January 19, 2008
Elizabeth H Tudor
The Botanical Artists of Canada are currently presenting a juried art show: NATIVE PLANTS at TODMORDEN MILL GALLERY, 67 Pottery Road, Toronto, Ontario (Bayview and Broadview)
Gallery hours 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m., Wednesday to Sunday
Free admission and free parking.
Posted October 08, 2007
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Flowers-of-Crete
An excellent and very informative site. Julia Jones, Flowers of Crete |