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The American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) is the principal United States society for those who practice and appreciate contemporary botanical art.Since its founding by Diane Bouchier in 1994, ASBA has grown to nearly 2000 individual members in 39 countries and more than 40 institutional members from around the world.
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.
Deborah Lambkin was born in 1970 and trained in the National College of Art and Design.She spent a number of years living in Dublin and working as an artist. She worked for Motive Advertising and Design which she left in 1998 to focus on her own art.
Alice R. Tangerini (born April 25, 1949) is an American botanical illustrator.In 1972, Tangerini was hired as a staff illustrator for the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History by American botanist Lyman Bradford Smith.
Susannah Blaxill is an Australian botanical artist. [1] Blaxill was born in 1954 and currently [when?] lives in Australia, but lived in England for about 17 years, where she became a member of the Society of Botanical Artists. [1] She is internationally recognised [2] as a leading artist specialising in watercolour, pencil and charcoal drawings ...
American Bryological and Lichenological Society; American Fern Society; American Iris Society; American Society of Botanical Artists; American Society of Plant Biologists; American Society of Plant Taxonomists; Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa
Mary Ann Armstrong (1838–1910), British botanical fern artist [10] Mary Daisy Arnold (c. 1873 –1955), botanical artist [11] Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987), Australian botanical artist and plant collector [12] Louisa Atkinson (1834–1872), Australian botanical artist, illustrator, naturalist and writer [13]
[2] [1] In 1994 she was a founder board member of the American Society of Botanical Artists. [1] As director emeritus she led more than 100 international botanical tours abroad, visiting 46 countries. She also gave many public outreach lectures. [1]