Florilegium Society

Andrew Brown

Andrew taught Biology in independent schools before taking

early retirement to become a freelance botanical illustrator.

Since 2002 he has worked in pen and ink, mainly for the Royal

Botanic Gardens, Kew, producing illustrations of new species,

for floras and for taxonomic revisions. The RHS have awarded

him four Gold and two Silver Gilt medals for his paintings.

Candida Groom

Having initially trained in textile design, Candida went on work with ceramics before taking up Botanical Art. She gained her diploma with Distinction from the Chelsea School of Botanical Art in 2016

Candida now sells her art through galleries and undertakes commissions and illustration work for books and magazines.

Carol Laird

I was born and educated as a High School Teacher in Australia. Impressed by illustrations at an historic house, I had a secret dream to be a botanical painter. Moving to the UK, I took the opportunity to complete a Diploma of Botanical Painting (2012) and joined the Chelsea Florilegium in 2013: Botany, blooms, history, fellowship.

Chrissie Lightfoot

Fellow of the CPGFS.  RHS silver Grenfell medal.  Work purchased by the Hunt Institute and commissioned work in private collections.  Paintings included in a number of publications and was selected for inclusion in both the Highgrove and the Transylvanian Florilegium.  Group exhibitions in UK and abroad including the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew and the Garden Museum, Lambeth.

Christine Battle

Christine Battle (b. 1956, Montreal, Canada) is an internationally recognised botanical artist living and working in Wiltshire, UK. She finds constant inspiration in the fields, hedgerows and woods surrounding her home. She has exhibited in New York, London and Sydney and her work is held in the Hunt Institute’s permanent collection of botanical art in Pittsburgh, USA. She also regularly contributes illustrations to Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, published by Kew Gardens. Christine trained at the English Gardening School at Chelsea Physic Garden and works in the traditional manner using watercolour on hand-made paper.

Dugald Graham-Campbell

Dugald Graham-Campbell previously Chairman of the CPG Florilegium Society, remains a member. Dugald trained in graphic design at St Martins School of Art. He has exhibited over many years in London including at the Royal Watercolour Society, and the Society of Botanical Artists.

Emma van Klaveren Dip CSBA

Emma has been painting professionally for twenty-five years, initially as a Muralist and Decorative Painter, then as Head of Art at two large preparatory schools and now as a freelance Botanical Artist and Illustrator. Emma works with industries and magazines who use botanicals in their products and in their marketing. She also welcomes private commissions. She has a Diploma with Merit from The Chelsea School of Botanical Art, she is a Painting Member of The Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society, The Association of British Botanical Artists (ABBA), The American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) and Amicus Botanicus. 

Instagram & Facebook: @emmasbotanicals

Website: www.emmasbotanicals.com

Gillian Barlow

Paintings in watercolour on paper and vellum, preferring wild plant species, trees, medicinal plants. Work in: Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium; the Prince’s Trust Transylvania Florilegium; Sydney Botanic Gardens Florilegium; Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh USA; RBG Kew Curtis Botanical Magazine archive; Shirley Sherwood Collection, and others. www.gillianbarlow.com

Helen Allen

Helen Allen is a graduate of the English Gardening School, taught by Anne Marie Evans. Trained as a textile designer and teacher, Helen became Course Director of the Diploma course in botanical painting and illustration before opening the Chelsea School of Botanical Art (now closed) at the Chelsea Physic Garden between 2014 and 2018; teaching and sharing her love of plants and art.

Helen has exhibited in Wales and internationally; her work is held in the Archives of Chelsea Physic Garden, Hampton Court Palace, the Archives of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Grootbos Foundation Florilegium, as well as a number of other collections. Her work may also be found in the Highgrove Florilegium, and Transylvania Florilegium; Helen led the project on location in Transylvania and in London. Recently Helen was awarded a residency at Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Virginia, USA and invited to paint for it’s Florilegium.

Helen Ayers

Helen Ayers, . BA Graphic Design. Botanising since early childhood with Wild Flower Society. Inspired to paint plants by Shirley Sherwood’s exhibition at Ashmolean 2006. Kew Certificate in Botanical Illustration 2010. Exhibited at RHS Shows. Two paintings in Royal College of Physicians’ College Herbal 2018. Fellow of Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society.

Jeni Neale (nee Barlow) SBA Fellow

Watching fruit and vegetables grow on my father’s allotment sparked my love for botanical art. Capturing the essence and character of a plant in detail, its shape and zing of colour is a constant challenge. There’s always something to paint without leaving the house! I enjoy the process of painting and its tranquillity and therapeutic qualities. I teach regular classes for adults on all aspects of botanical art and have regularly exhibited with the B.S.B.A the Society of Botanical Artists, the Birmingham Watercolour Society and the SBA. I have three paintings in the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Archive and one in the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in the USA.

Jenny Webster

Jenny gained a certificate with distinction from the Society of Botanical Artists in 2009. She is a life member of the Leicestershire Society of Botanical Illustrators and a Fellow of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society. She has won three Silver Gilt medals from the RHS in the past few years. Her work has been exhibited at Kew Gardens, Burghley House, Leicester Guildhall and the Yarrow Gallery, Oundle.
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Jill Mayhew

Jill took early retirement from Physics teaching in 2001 and began to study botanical painting under Anne-Marie Evans.

She was awarded a Silver-gilt medal at the 2015 RHS London show and has paintings in both the Highgrove and the Transylvania Florilegia as well as other publications.

Joanna Craig-Mcfeely

Joanna took up Botanical illustration on retirement from her Physiotherapy practice and became a member of several Art Societies, she also served as a Directer of the SBA for ten years.

After attending Jenny Phillips Master Classes in Italy Joanna adopted her technique of mixing from a reduced pallet of only six water colours, she paints  on both Paper and vellum and holds five RHS silver gilt  medals.

Her work is published and in collections both here and abroad including The Hunt Institute for Botanical Illustration USA and both volumes of the Price of Wales HIghgrove Florilegium  Collection.

Joanna Craig-McFeely fellow CPGFS, Hon member SBA  Rtd. , FLS

Josephine Edwards

Jo studied in Birmingham for a diploma in art and design and worked as a textile designer, art teacher and botanical illustrator. She was awarded the Diploma in Botanical Illustration from the University of Sheffield and is a Fellow of both the Sheffield Florilegium Society and Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society.
Jo works in coloured pencil.

Judi Stone

Judi Stone works as an illustrator at Kew Gardens, focusing especially on documenting new species of orchids. For the Society she has produced both line drawings and paintings of many plants, with a special interest in the Physic Garden’s National Collection of pelargoniums. Chair of the Society from 2007 – 2013.

Kimiko Kambe-Gang

After hectic financial world in the city life for 30years, I was struggling to fit in the retirement life. By my friend recommendation, I joined a botanical class taught by Mayumi Hashi.  Then I took SBADLDC and didn’t get top Award, but given Jantien Burggaaf Memorial award.  I was accepted as a member of CPGFS and my first picture submitted to the society was nominated to the picture of their 20^th anniversary.

Maggy Fitzpatrick

I qualified and worked as a Calligrapher and Heraldic Artist for many years before my love for plants and gardening drew me to Botanical Illustration.

My heraldic and illumination work was mainly in gouache and oils on calfskin vellum, canvas and silk, whilst my botanical work is primarily in watercolour and graphite although I am interested in exploring the use of different media and supports including silverpoint.

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Web site: maggyfitzpatrick.co.uk

Instagram:  Maggy Fitzpatrick Artist

Mariella Baldwin, M.A.

Mariella has a breadth of knowledge within the Visual Arts and awarded her M.A. from the University of Sussex.  She studied Botanical Illustration under the tuition of Anne-Marie Evans at the English Gardening School at Chelsea Physic Garden.  She maintains a relationship with the garden through the Florilegium Society.

Mary Ellen Taylor

Mary Ellen trained at the Chelsea Physic Garden after living 2 decades in the Galapagos Islands and the Andes. Now Chair of the CPG Florilegium Society, she teaches in the UK and abroad, her work has been published, sold internationally, is a Fellow of the Linnean Society and was recently selected for inclusion in the Transylvania Florilegium created under the umbrella of the Prince of Wales’s Foundation Romania.

Mayumi Hashi

She is the recipient of two Gold Medals from the RHS.  Her work is represented in the Highgrove Florilegium, the Transylvania Florilegium, the Hunt Institute, Flora Japonica, the Florilegium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and the Royal College of Physicians where she was Artist in residence 2010-2011.  She is a contributor for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.   Instagram: @mayumihashiart

Nicki Tullett FCPGFS, RHS Silver-Gilt Medal

I love drawing attention to the beauty of plants often overlooked – the colours in a Nettle stem (Urticaria dioica), for example, are beautiful.  I was Hon. Secretary of the Florilegium for five years.  My work is in the Garden’s Archive, the Shirley Sherwood Collection, Botanical Illustration from Chelsea Physic Garden and The Illustrated College Herbal – Plants Pharmacopoea Londinensis of 1618. 

Peggy Dawe

Peggy was a very active Fellow Member of this Society, and also of The Society of Botanical Artists; she was always the oldest person on Receiving Day, when the artworks for the Annual Exhibition are received, last exhibiting in 2009.

Peggy grew up in Wallington, Surrey. After the war she married Don Dawe, moving to Purley, Surrey, and they had two daughters – Sarah and Elizabeth. Comparatively late in life, Peggy followed her twin passions of botany and art by specialising in botanical painting. She won a gold artistic medal in one of the Alpine Garden Society shows, and her paintings were exhibited throughout Europe and regularly at the RHS shows in London, winning prestigious medals. Some of her paintings have also been published on greeting cards, and her line drawings illustrate The Gardener’s Guide to growing Hardy Geraniums (Bath & Jones 1994). She celebrated her 100th birthday in September 2024.

Penny Gould

Penny’s childhood amongst the steep-banked lanes of rural Devon, strewn with wild flowers at a child’s eye level, laid the foundations for a life-long fascination with plants. Penny teaches botanical art close to her Oxfordshire home, constantly finding inspiration in its beautiful and plentiful cultivated and wild flora. Fellow Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society, Fellow Society of Botanical Artists, DipSBA (Dist).

Penny Price

2013: Diploma in Botanical Art and Illustration distinction (EGS)
2014: RHS Silver Gilt medal for Botanical Art
Paintings exhibited and/or held in various public collections including three Florilegium societies of which I am a Fellow; The hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh; Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew, and the RHS Lindley Library, London.

Rui Jiang

Rui was born in a small town in Shandong Province in China. She came to the UK to continue her studies in 2004 after finishing her undergraduate degree in BA focusing on New Media Design. Rui entered the master’s degree of Graphic Design at the University for the Creative Arts in Maidstone, Kent. It was during this time her passion for Botanical Art began.

After a few years of being a freelance graphic designer in London, Rui’s interest in painting flowers and plants grew. She joined the diploma course at the Chelsea School of Botanical Art from 2016-2017and graduated with distinction for her final project.

Membership: Amicus Botanicus, CPG Florilegium Society, Society of Botanical Artists

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Instagram: www.instagram.com/rui_j_

Sally Pinhey JP MSc, FLS, SGM, FCPGFS, IAPI.

Sally has illustrated four specialist books, “Pears”, “Plums”, “Natural Dyes”, and “The Botanical Illustrator’s Handbook”. .RHS medal- holder and teacher-trained, she taught Art at Kingston Maurward College, Dorset from 2003-2021, formerly the Eden Project, and Art in Action from 2002-5. Her illustrated guide for “Plants for Soil Regeneration” appears in 2021.

Sue J Williams, MA Oxon, Fellow, CPG Florilegium Society, Fellow, Society of Botanical Artists

Came late to botanical painting via short course at Kew, but had always been fascinated by the endless variations in colour, texture and pattern in plants as well as their therapeutic uses. Commissioned to paint the indigenous flowering trees and plants for the National Botanic Gardens in Zimbabwe 1998, and designed definitive botanical stamp issue for the Pitcairn Islands 2000.

Awarded RHS Gold Medal in 2008. Work held in major collections in UK and abroad.

Yvonne Glenister Hammond

Yvonne has been a professional botanical artist since she learned the techniques from Anne Marie Evans at Chelsea Physic Garden. She has since been awarded two RHS Gold Medals (and several silver gilts) and become a tutor herself.

She has exhibited worldwide and has several paintings in the collections of Dr. Shirley Sherwood and the Hunt Institute in Pittsburgh.