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She started illustrating the world around her when she was young. [1] She found her way to painting and botanical art after discovering Shirley Sherwood's book "Contemporary Botanical Artist" and viewing Sherwood's exhibit at SH Irvin Gallery in 1998. [2] Allen studied graphic design and illustration before turning to botanical art in 1997. [3]
Lilian Snelling (1879–1972) was "probably the most important British botanical artist of the first half of the 20th century". [4] She was the principal artist and lithographer to Curtis's Botanical Magazine between 1921 and 1952 [ 5 ] and "was considered one of the greatest botanical artists of her time" – "her paintings were both detailed ...
South African botanical artist 1895-01-01 1985-05-03 South Africa: Daphne Osborne: Botanist 1930-03-07 2006-06-16 United Kingdom: Deborah M. Pearsall: American paleoethnobotany 1950 United States: Dianne Edwards: Palaeobotanist 1942 United Kingdom: Doris Löve: Swedish-Icelandic botanist (1918–2000) 1918-01-02 2000-02-25 Sweden: Dorothea Pertz
John Nugent Fitch (24 October 1840 – 11 January 1927) was a British botanical illustrator and lithographer, [1] best known for his contribution of 528 plates to The Orchid Album, [2] a landmark work of eleven volumes published between 1872 and 1897. Fitch was the nephew of botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892). [3]
Botanical illustrators paint or draw plants and sometimes their natural environment as well, forming a lineage where art and science meet. Some prefer to paint isolated specimen flowers while others prefer arrangements. Many botanical artists through the centuries have been active in collecting and cataloguing new species and/or in breeding plants.
Cherryl Angela Fountain (born 1950) is an English still life, landscape and botanical artist. As the daughter of a gamekeeper and a resident of rural east Kent, much of her work reflects an environment of farming, botanical gardens and country life.
Margaret Ursula Mee, MBE (22 May 1909 – 30 November 1988) [1] was a British botanical artist who specialised in plants from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.She was also one of the first environmentalists to draw attention to the impact of large-scale mining and deforestation on the Amazon Basin.
Matilda Smith (30 July 1854 – 29 December 1926) was a botanical artist whose work appeared in Curtis's Botanical Magazine for over forty years. [1] She became the first artist to depict New Zealand's flora in depth, the first official artist of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the second woman to become an associate of the Linnaean Society. [2]