Treasures of Botanical Art by Shirley Sherwood
Treasures of Botanical Art reveals the history, science and beauty of botanical painting.
Martyn Rix has worked for the Royal Horticultural Society and has co-authored many books on horticulture with Roger Phillips. He is editor of 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine' published by Kew, the longest continuously running botanical periodical in the world, founded in 1787, which places special emphasis on botanical illustration. Martyn has travelled widely around the world collecting and photographing plants, and designing and planting gardens. In 2002 he was awarded the Gold Veitch Memorial Media for services to Horticulture.Dr Shirley Sherwood travels extensively and has been collecting contemporary botanical drawings since 1990. Her comprehensive collection includes work by artists living in thirty different countries and documents the emergence of a new wave of botanical painters and the renaissance of their art form and is arguably the most important private collection of twentieth century botanical art in the world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842463680 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842463683 |
| Title | Treasures of Botanical Art |
| Author | Shirley Sherwood |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Royal Botanic Gardens |
| Year published | 2008-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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