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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
Lee began her work in botanical illustration in London and has recieved medals from Royal Horticultural Society. Currently she is based in California, where she is a member of the Northern California Society of Botanical Artists.
Crystal is a botanical and scientific illustrator based in Alberta, Canada. She has been involved as a botanical illustrator for over 20 years, specializing primarily in colored pencil and oil paints.
Mary is an Irish botanical artist who prefers working in large formats. As a founding chairperson of the Irish Society of Botanical Art, Mary's work has been exhibited in Ireland as well as throughout Europe and at American Society of Botanical Artists, 25th International Exhibition in New York.
Alessandro is a botanical illustrator based in the Southeastern state of Paraná, Brazil. His formal education in Biology help to inform his artwork, which depicts flora of Brazil and central South America.
Mary Ellen is a botanical artist based in London and, like Helen, Diploma in Botanical Painting at the English Gardening School located in the Chelsea Physic Garden. She continued on to serve as the Diploma Manager there for 7 years and traveled to the Galapagos where she had previously lived. View her work on her website and on Instagram.
Coming to botanical illustration after training as a textile designer, Helen received Diploma in Botanical Illustration from the English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Her work has been exhibited in London, other parts of England as well as internationally.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, John considers himself a contemporary visual artist whose practice sits within the genre of botanical art yet rebels against its continued traditional representations and tropes. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, in solo and group exhibitions for the last 22 years in private and public galleries exploring these tensions along with the complex and dynamic interrelationships of man and nature/science and art. This has evolved into a commitment to painting as both a method and as a form of deeper inspection which continues to draw upon the power of close observation. Using rich luminous hues in gorgeously exotic and rare botanical specimens epitomise his work, however these are more than representational flower paintings. Closer inspection unearths a certain ambiguity of form and intent towards a dark and complex narrative which is born of the association between eye and hand, and sense and thought.
Corymbia ficifolia, watercolor on paper, 49 x 40 cm, 2018 - Beverly Allen
Beverly worked as a graphic designer and illustrator, before moving to botanical art practice. She has shown annually at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney ‘Botanica’ Exhibition since 1999, and exhibits internationally.
Her work is held in private collections including the Shirley Sherwood Collection, the Peter Crossing Collection and the Isaac Sutton Collection as well as at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation USA, the Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium Library at Kew Gardens, the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library, the Highgrove Florilegium for the Prince of Wales’ Charitable Trust, The Transylvania Florilegium for the Prince of Wales’s Foundation Romania and The Florilegium, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.
Carol took a circuitous route to botanical art. A one-time draftsman, surveyor’s cartographer, and tractor-trailer driver all were steps along the trail that contribute to her work in the field and studio.
A freelancer for over 30 years, Carol's main obsession has always been orchids, but rare wildflowers, heirloom fruits and other interesting plants are fair game. Living in the Hudson Valley provides perfect opportunities for exploring plant diversity. Her artwork has been exhibited and collected around the world. Among recent venues are Jonathan Cooper Gallery, London; Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew, UK: UBS Galleries and Newhouse Galleries in New York; Museum de Zwarte Tulp, Lisse, the Netherlands; and the Marciana Library, Venice, Italy. Her work is in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Smithsonian Institution, the Hunt Institute, and numerous private and corporate collections throughout the Americas and Europe. She recently was invited to contribute to the Grootbos Florilegium, a project to document and raise awareness of the Cape Floral Kingdom in South Africa. A book has been published documenting the project.
Carol is Exhibitions Director of the American Society of Botanical Artists,, curating and coordinating exhibitions throughout the US. She teaches workshops around the country and internationally in person and online devoted to techniques of watercolor painting on vellum.
Emmons has won many awards including two Gold Medals and a “Best Painting in Show” from the Royal Horticultural Society, London. Also, the prestigious Diane Bouchier Founders Award for Excellence in Botanical Art given by the American Society of Botanical Artists.
She has exhibited at the Smithsonian; the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; the New York Botanical Garden; Wave Hill, the United States Botanic Garden and the Horticultural Society of New York.
Recent awards include the Jurors’ Award at the 20th Botanical Art Exhibition at Filoli and “Best in Show” at the American Society of Botanical Artists 21st International Exhibition, Wave Hill.
Her work is included in numerous collections including the Shirley Sherwood Collection, Kew; the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library; the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation; and the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection.
When not painting, Emmons spends her days gardening and walking the trails of Vashon Island, Washington State. She volunteers at Vashon Island Pet Protectors.
Dark Hellebore by Elaine Searle.
Elaine Searle is botanical artist based in Norfolk, UK. She is internationally recognized for her watercolor paintings of plants, fruit and vegetables. To view her work, visit her website.
She Made Her Choice by Irina Neacsu.
Irina Neacșu is a designer and a botanical artist, member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and founder of the Romanian Society of Botaical Artists. Her projects cover a wide range of creative fields, from painting and graphics to art teaching, applied arts and interior design.
‘Pleiochiton ebracteatum’ by Fátima Zagonel
Fátima Zagonel is a Brazilian artist who worked as a graphic designer for about 20 years before becoming a botanical illustrator. Her current work primarily consists of scientific illustrations of native Brazilian plants, but without forgetting commercial artwork. In 1999, she won the Margaret Mee Foundation Fellowship and was instructed by Christabel King at the Royal Botanic Gardens for six months. She is the Founder Associate of the Botanical Illustration Center of Paraná – CIBP and is a botanical illustration teacher for beginners. Learn more about her at www.fatimazagonel.com.br.
‘Monstera deliciosa’ by Maria Alice Rezende
Maria Alice Rezende is currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she works as an art teacher as well as an illustrator on projects with researchers at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. Her main creative practice is her personal work of illustration of native species of Brazilian flora. Her awards include receiving the "Margaret Mee Foundation Award" at the Royal Botanic Gardens in 2004. She is currently working on an illustration project on the biodiversity of the South Atlantic Islands.