Do any of you work with botanists and illustrate for journals and herbariums? If so, in which publications has your work been published?
Kathleen Baker
I am a trained botanist, holding M.Phil and Ph. D. degrees. I haven’t had illustrations published in any scientific journal.
Brigitte Daniel
Difficult to answer as I work as a painting botanist! My work has often been bought by scientific collections, such as the Lindley Library and the Museum of Wales. They usually ask for permission to publish in their in-house journals. I have also sold work to botanists and botanical artists as reference works.
Susan Hillier
I used to work as a scientific illustrator for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and there I worked with world class botanists, as the work featured many dissections under amazing microscopes. It was published in scientific papers and specialist journals, such as Flora of Tropical East Africa (ISBN 90 6191 321 8 )
Jennifer Jenkins
No.
Margaret Stevens
I worked on the 4-volume Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening producing black and white drawings to scale of all the paphaeopediliums which theyn also used miun one of their orchid publications. There is very little of this kind of work for botanical artists unless you are amongst the lucky few living near one of the botanical gardens. Even then money is short and photography is cheaper so however much your work may be desired a University for example will be looking for a donation rather than a paid commission. That is how it is in the UK at any rate! And with your Carnegie Mellon University too!
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