The summer exhibition at the Garden Museum is The Highgrove Florilegium: watercolours by over 70 of the leading botanical artists from around the world who have painted plants and trees grown in the garden of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. This first royal Florilegium in the UK is being published in a limited edition raising money for The Prince’s Charities Foundation.

The Garden Museum is the first venue for the exhibition of these works, which are loaned, with the kind permission of HRH The Prince of Wales. The exhibition will show contemporary botanical art at its finest.

Distinguished botanists worked with the Head Gardener at Highgrove, to ensure that this great garden is represented in all its aspects by an appropriate selection of material, including plants that are useful or commonplace, rare and in decline, or just extravagantly beautiful. Work was submitted for selection to a rigorous panel of experts led by Anne-Marie Evans MA FLS, who developed the Diploma Course in Botanical Painting at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Botanical illustration can be traced back to herbals in the 6th century AD. Recently, the growing popularity of gardening, and awareness of plant forms and habitat, have led to a renewal of interest in botanical painting and a new ‘Golden Age’ of botanical art.
Museum admission charges apply.

Contemporary Botanical Art by Kate Nessler
2nd June – 30th June 2009
In association with Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery, London

The first in a series of shows to appear in the new MAGAZINE SPACE, dedicated to displaying the work of contemporary botanical artists and plant photographers, this exhibition showcases the work of American-born botanical artist Kate Nessler.

Kate’s work, created in her rural studio in Arkansas, has been exhibited widely and has won numerous awards, including three Gold Medals from the Royal Horticultural Society, and an Award of Excellence from the American Society of Botanical Artists.

Her work is included in permanent collections including the Royal Horticultural Society, The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, The Morton Arboretum, the Shirley Sherwood Collection and The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium. Her work also appears in the current Garden Museum exhibition The Highgrove Florilegium.

Works are for sale and a handlist with prices is available.

The Garden Museum is independent and receives no funding from central or local government. Any proceeds from this exhibition will support our work.