Sally Strawson

About

Sally Strawson is a Botanical Watercolour Artist living in North Lincolnshire. After studying at Doncaster College of Art and Kingston Polytechnic, London and gaining a BA (Hons) degree in 3D Interior Design she worked as a commercial and domestic interior designer in London and Yorkshire.

It was after moving to the Lincolnshire countryside and developing a passion for plants and the garden that Sally was inspired to combine these with her skills of observational drawing and love of colour, textures, detail and design. She has studied botanical art courses with Anne Marie Evans and Valerie Oxley and is a member of The Florilegium Society at Sheffield Botanical Gardens. In 2013 Sally was invited to become an artist member of The Florilegium Society at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia.

Sally's work has been exhibited in galleries in the UK and Internationally, including The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, USA, The Ursus Gallery, New York, The Garden Museum, London,  Lincoln Cathedral, The Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Kew Gardens, London, The Sydney Botanical Gardens, Australia.

Two of her paintings were selected for inclusion in The Prince of Wales Highgrove Florilegium, a collection of paintings by international artists, which portrays the plants in the garden of His Royal Highness at Highgrove House. For more information click here.

Three of Sally's paintings were selected for inclusion in The Transylvania Florilegium created under the umbrella/aegis of The Princes School of Traditional Arts to record in a permanent way the flora of Transylvania.

Her work is held in permanent collections worldwide.

Past Exhibitions

2022
Mall Gallery ,London. SBA Annual Exhibition
Ferens Art Gallery Hull, Open Exhibition

2018
The Sydney Florilegium, The Shirley Sherwood Gallery Kew Gardens, London
The Transylvania Florilegium, The Romanian Cultural Institute, London
The Illustrated College Herbal, The Royal College of Physicians,London

2017
Tradescant's Orchard
The Garden Museum, London

2016
The Sydney Florilegium
Royal Botanic Gardens ,Sydney, Australia

2014
2014 RHS London Show "Shades of Autumn" Exhibition

2013
The Highgrove Florilegium, at Jardin Botanique National, Meise, Belgium
2011 Ursus Gallery "Garden to Field" Exhibition, South Hampton Cultural Centre New York, USA

2011
'Garden to Field Exhibition', Ursus Gallery, New York, USA

2010
13th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration
The Hunt Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
The Highgrove Florilegium at The Marcube Gallery, Tokyo
and The Tylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

2009
The Highgrove Florilegium at The Garden Museum, London
The Huntington,Los Angeles, USA
Nijo-jo Castle, Kyoto, Japan (prints)

2008
The AM Painting Group "Paintings of Plants as Symbols in Religious Art" Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, UK

Publications

2018
The Transylvania Florilegium
The Illustrated College Herbal

2016
The Sydney Florilegium

2010
13th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Catalogue

2008
The Highgrove Florilegium

Articles

2008
The Lincolnshire Journal

2011
The Yorkshire Post Magazine

Collections

The Florilegium Society Archive, The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Australia
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
The Highgrove Florilegium
The Transylvania Florilegium
The Florilegium Society Archive, Sheffield Botanical Gardens
Private commissions UK and USA

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