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Filtering by Tag: 2025
Rafael Urbina-Casanova (he/him) is a PhD candidate in the Plant Biology and Conservation program at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden. His research explores the potential of new genomic techniques to inform large-scale restoration in the western United States and the recovery plan of a threatened species endemic to the Great Lakes region.
Kinsey Reed (she/her) is a Plant & Soil Science PhD candidate at West Virginia University whose main research interest is the impact of grassland plant diversity, and its interaction with livestock grazing, on soil health in Appalachia.
Cade N. Kane (he/him) is a plant physiologist with a PhD from Purdue University. His current research interest is on the water dynamics of woody plant buds as they expand and burst during the spring. He uses recently-developed time-lapse imaging technology to capture the diurnal and seasonal changes in bud size, gathering data on how plants respond to changes in water status even before they have leaves.
Samantha Rosa (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Biological Sciences and Ecology at the University of Maryland. With a background as a classroom teacher, her current work focuses on community-driven plant biology and conservation with the goal to develop curricula and programming that increase the accessibility of plant science research.
Marlis Hinckley (she/her) is a PhD candidate in History of Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her present research focuses on gardens in the early years of the Spanish Empire, especially on how the Hispano-Arab gardening tradition interacted with indigenous plants, people, and customs in and around the Valley of Mexico.
Carole Nataf is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Her dissertation, ‘Knowing Nature: French Savant Artists and Ecological Awareness in the Global Eighteenth Century,’ argues that the empirical sciences and the decorative arts were deeply interconnected theoretically, institutionally and in practice at that time, and examines artworks in a select range of media through the lens of emerging scientific disciplines.
Brien Beidler (he/him) is a book artist and toolmaker based in Saint Paul, MN, whose work celebrates the structure and aesthetics of pre-industrial book bindings in a 21st century context. His custom hand-engraved leather working tools draw from the plants of his local environs to explore decorative, symbolic, and personal meaning.
Ashia S. Ajani (they/she) is a multidisciplinary writer based in Oakland, CA and a UC Berkeley Lecturer in African American Studies. Their work examines the use of storytelling to connect climate education with memory preservation, and are currently developing a collection of lyric essays that interrogates the relationship between ecologically deemed nonhuman "pests'' and undesirable human populations.
Yoko Harada (she/her) is a botanical illustrator based in Tokyo, Japan, working primarily in watercolor on paper. She graduated with distinction from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh diploma course and has grown her botanical illustration practice under the tutelage of two prior OSGF Botanical Artists in Residence, Elaine Searle and Mieko Ishikawa. You can see her work on her website and on Instagram.
Issy van Zyl (she/her) is a botanical artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She works in the medium of watercolor and focuses mostly on endemic South African plants and the insects they serve. She currently working on her RHS body of work in the theme of Highveld grassland plants. You can see her work on Instagram.
Hyewoo Shin (she/her) is a botanical illustrator and plant taxonomy scholar based in the United States who has recently been studying native orchids and related fungi in North America as a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC). She has explored wild areas of Asia, America, and Europe, and while reporting new and unrecorded species, she drew all the botanical illustrations for those papers. You can see her work on her website and on Instagram.
Laura Silburn (she/her) is botanical artist and tutor living and working in the far South West of the UK, whose recent work has focused on ferns in different stages of the life cycle, with the goal of eventually illustrating a book on ferns. You can her work on Instagram.
Jee-Yeon Koo (she/her) is a botanical artist and watercolorist based in the Republic of Korea. She is currently the President of the Korean Society of Botanical Illustrators and has been a principal art director for the Korea National Arboretum’s project for illustrating rare and endangered and poisonous Korean plants and others since 2006. You can see her work on Instagram.
Margaret is a professional studio artist, designer, and teacher working from my home studio in Mt. Penn, Pennsylvania. Her subjects are plants, fungi, and the wider natural world — the twigs, leaves, wild plants, and landscape details that most people walk past without stopping. She works in watercolor and graphite on vellum, and egg tempera on panel, building detailed, layered work that emphasizes shape, form, and close observation.
https://www.margaretsaylor.com