Artistic Approach:

A botanical artist and illustrator based in Wellington, New Zealand.
She is tertiary educated in visual communication design research in both the United Kingdom
and New Zealand (NZ), and has worked as a tertiary educator at Massey University in this
field in NZ.

Her practice is grounded in the time-honoured conventions of botanical illustration and the disciplined technique of watercolour, combining accuracy with sensitivity.
Informed by global perspectives yet shaped by local landscapes, working from life, she captures the transient and poetic qualities of plants.

Her most recent work is within ecological frameworks and the lens of cultural geography, reflecting on introduced species, colonial histories, and the fragility of nature under
climate change.

Affiliations:

Botanical Art Society of New Zealand
Otari-Wilton’s Bush (friend of)

Education:

B.A.(Hons) Graphic Design, Kingston Polytechnic, Surrey, UK
B.Des Master of Design (Distinction) Massey University, School of Art and Design, Wellington,
NZ 2009
Workshop – Otari-Wilton’s Bush Native Botanical Garden, Wellington, New Zealand - Jess
Shepherd 2021
Introduction and Advanced Studies Certificates in Botanical Illustration RBGE – Online Graduate
2022; 2023(Distinctions)
Masterclass – Capturing the wild flora of Transylvania with Lucy T. Smith Transylvania School of
Botanic Art and Illustration, Copșa Mare, Sibiu, Romania, 2024
Summer School –The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2024
The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Botanical Illustration Diploma 2023-2025.

Exhibitions:

2025

The Royal Botanic Gardens Botanical Illustration Graduate Exhibition