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Lizabeth Leech is a botanist, botanical artist, teacher and author whose focus is teaching botany to botanical artists in the UK.

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Schlumbergera 'Wintermarchen'
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John Muir Laws
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Institute for Analytical Plant Illustration
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Seeing with Graphite Eyes

Students Overcome Their Fear of Drawing in Botany Lab

Eradicating Plant Blindness in the 21st Century

Using Social Media to Gather Feedback About Student Interest in Natural Resource Management

How to Draw Plants for Documentation

Investigating the Drawing Process

Making Students Aware of Errors During the Drawing Process

How do you grade a sketch?

Helping Teachers Turn Observers Into Naturalists

Empowering Children to Know What They Know Through Art

Lesson Plans in Botanical Art & Plant Conservation

Anne Marie Evans Discusses Teaching, Learning & Botanical Art

The Timeless Value of Naturalist Journals

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning the Power of Plants

Margaret Best Discusses Color in Botanical Art, Provides Tips for Informal Science Educators

Generating Interest in Boring Subjects

Public Perception of Botanical Gardens

Quality Observation is the Common Denominator in Art & Science

Botanical Wall Charts in the Classroom

Lesson Plans in Botanical Illustration

Practical Drawing as a Thinking Tool

Visualizing Plants with Botanical Symbols

Does experience in the arts lead to academic achievement?

The Value of Words Over Botanical Illustration

Biologist Learns to Draw Plants, Sees with New Eyes

Visualizing Life Cycles & Ecosystems

Niki Simpson Introduces Digital Composite Botanical Illustrations to Botanical Art

Imagery in Scientific Communication

The Last Botany Student in the UK

Humans First. Then Animals. Then Plants.

The Origin of Botanical Field Guides

User-friendly Identification Tools for Plants & Animals

Students Take First Step Towards Creating Unique Florilegium

Make Students Better Observers This School Year

The Botanical Artist as Naturalist

Remember That Plant You Saw?

The Arts & Everyday Learning

Why Integrating the Arts into the Classroom May Improve Content Retention

Watercolors of the Herbs of Britain Provide Framework for Dichotomous Key

Learning with Journals, Notes and Scrolls

What makes plants interesting?

Ecoliteracy Curriculum Emphasizes Plant Restoration, Natural Dyes

Educational Wall Charts Teach Less, Better

Plant Identification & Environmental Literacy

Outdoor Education & Plant Blindness

Scholars Study Images in the Service of Science

Botany Program for Botanical Artists Launched in UK

Olcani: When Plants Are Medicine

Botany Education in the 18th Century

Thoughtful Observation

What do textbooks teach us about plants?

Drawing Plant Life Cycles

Painting Hawaii's Endangered Plants

Researchers Study Renaissance Herbals to Preserve the Botanical Tradition of the Ancient Mediterranean

Scientific Illustration in the Elementary School Classroom

How Textbooks Contribute to Plant Blindness

The Botanical Drawings & Discoveries of Joseph Hooker

The History of Botany in the US

Seeing Plants Equally

How to Observe the Life Histories of Plants

Bringing Plants to the People

Measuring Attitudes Towards Plants

Create Your Own Florilegium

Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Soldier & Naturalist

Rumphius: A Naturalist for the People

Inside 'The Ambonese Herbal'

What Don't People Know About Plants

Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies
American Museum
Natural History
New York, NY
June 25, 2011 - June 24, 2012

Treasures of the Royal Society Library
The Royal Society
Dec. 5, 2011 - June 21, 2012

Native Pennsylvania,
A Wildflower Walk
Hunt Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
March 2 - June 29, 2012

Lullaby for Maine
University of New England
Portland, ME
March 18 - June 16, 2012

Wildflowers of Mineral King
Theodore Payne Foundation
Sun Valley, CA
March 30 - June 30, 2012

Margaret Flockton Award Exhibition 2012
National Herbarium of New South Wales, Australia
See the winners!
March 31 - June 29, 2012

The Magnified eye: Contemporary Botanical Portraiture
Reeves-Reed Arboretum
Summit, NJ
April 3 - June 15, 2012

The Art of Nature
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
Santa Cruz, CA
April 7 - June 3, 2012

Botanize
Garcia.Dunn
Covington, LA
Opens April 21 2012

Focus on Nature XII:
Natural History Illustration
New York State Museum
April 28 - December 31, 2012

SPECIAL VIEWING
Botanical Art by
Heeyoung Kim
RHS Gold Medalist 2012
Pollak Room
Northbrook Public Library
Northbrook, IL
May 4 - 31, 2012

Leonardo Da Vinci: Anatomist
The Queen's Gallery
London, England
Get the iPad app!
May 4 - Oct 7, 2012

Portraits of Leaves & Fungi
Paintings from the Shirley Sherwood Collection
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
London, England
May 5 - April 30, 2012

Ways of Seeing
Lloyd Library
Cinncinati, OH
May 5 - August 3, 2012

NEW
Botanical Art Exhibition
Pacific Northwest Botanical Artists
Bloedel Reserve
Bainbridge Island, WA
May 10 - June 15, 2012

NEW
Wicked Plants
North Carolina Arboretum
Asheville, NC
Now through Sept. 3, 2012
Books by Amy Stewart

NEW
The Art of Science
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
Bush Barn Art Center
Salem, OR
June 1 - July 28, 2012

NEW
Ellsworth Kelly
Plant Drawings
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
June 5 - Sept. 3, 2012

When They Were Wild: Capturing California’s Wildflower Heritage
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Expected 2013

Art and Nature
ASBA Members & Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators
Bartram's Garden
Philadelphia, PA
April 26, 2013

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