RHS Botanical Art Show 2014 - Medal winners

Below you can find a list of the awards made this morning at the RHS Botanical Art Show 2014 at the RHS Horticultural Halls in Westminster.  The exhibition continues tomorrow.

Best Botanical Painting - by Işık Güner

RHS Best Botanical Painting - Işık Güner 

RHS Best Exhibit of Botanical Art - Hye Woo Shin

RHS Gold Medal - Botanical Art

• Hye Woo Shin (Korea) - Heterotrophic Plants in Korea
• Işık Güner (Turkey/Scotland) - Plants from the woods & forests of Chile
• Lynda de Wet (South Africa) - Parasitic Plants in Situ with the Host Plant - this is her blog
• Louise Lane (UK) - Ophrys (Bee Orchids) of Menorca
• Nikki Marks (UK) - The Genus Arisaema
• Sharon Tingey (UK/Scotland) - Sunflowers (Helianthus)

RHS Silver-Gilt Medal (Flora)

• Nilavan Adams (Australia) - Veggie Might
• Sansanee Deekrajang (Thailand) - Plants and shadow
• Jane Fisher (USA) - Field corn
• Verene Kutter (Switzerland) The Genus Anemone in Flora Europeae
• Angela Petrini (Italy) - Exotic flowering trees of Italy
• Yoshiko Kamei (Japan) - Iris

• Gaynor Dickeson (UK) - Small is beautiful; Crab apples explored
• Valerie Dugan (UK) - Wild Orchids of Britain
• Caroline Frances-King (UK) - Arboreal Elements
• Sally Pond (UK) - 'Of autumn mists and mellow fruitfulness'
• Penny Price (UK) - The life history of Castanospermum australe 'Black bean tree' or Moreton Bay Chestnut
• Fran Thomas (UK/Scotland) - Native Scottish marginal pond plants (Rumex aquaticus, Menyanthes trifoliata, Iris pseudacorus, Caltha palustris, Lythrum salicaria & Petasites hybridus)

RHS Silver Medal (Flora)

• Beverly Duncan (USA) - Winter Branches - Natives of the Northeastern U.S.A.
• Tiziana Fontana (Italy) - Sardinian Grapes
• Anna Lu (Singapore) - Orchids

• Barbara Clemence (UK) - Plants that changed the world
• Sumiko Davies (UK) - Wild Orchids
• Michael Lakin (UK) - Life Cycle of Newton Wonder Apples
• David Pearson (UK) - Tulips
• Dianne Sutherland (UK) - Fritillaria species

RHS Bronze (Flora)

• Olivia Chambers - Roots, Shoots, Stems and Flowers

I'll be doing more posts about the show - including interviews with the RHS Gold Medal Winners and top tips for producing botanical art.

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More about Botanical Art

Işık Güner and Fran Thomas talk to Julia Trickey about watercolour paints
- Julia is using Daniel Smith for the demonstration

• Pop Up Studio at the RHS Botanical Art Exhibition - six artists demonstrate how they make art from botanical subject matter - including multiple Gold Medal winning artists Ann Swan and Julia Trickey

Ann Swan's coloured pencils

• Ten Top Tips for winning an RHS Gold Medal for Botanical Art 14 Apr 2013 - Have you ever wondered whether your artwork is good enough to submit to the RHS Botanical Art Exhibition; Have you got the stage where you've started to wonder about the logistics of what's involved in submitting an entry?
• Interviews with RHS Botanical Art Gold Medal Winners 18 Apr 2013 - Interviews with eight botanical artists who won Gold Medals at the RHS Botanical Art Show in April 2013.
• RHS Botanical Art Show 2013 - Selected artists 09 Mar 2013 - List of 30 botanical artists from 10 countries selected for The RHS Botanical Art Show 2013 in London in April.
• 7 Gold Medal Winners at RHS Botanical Art 2012 17 Mar 2012
• RHS Botanical Art Show & Five Gold Medal Winners 21 Mar 2011
• How to enter the RHS Botanical Art Show 22 Mar 2011
• RHS Gold Medal Botanical Art 23 Feb 2007

You can find more resources about Botanical Art in my resources for artists websites:

• Botanical Art - Resources for Artists This site shares information about botanical art - societies, collections, books and other resources which support the development of botanical art. It also links to leading botanical artists in the past and present..
• The Best Botanical Art Instruction Books Learn about the best botanical art instruction books.
• The Best Books about Botanical Artists & Illustrators
• Botany for Botanical Artists
• A History of Botanical Art 
• Makingamark's Botanical Art Compendium This is a compendium of all the sites about botanical artists and botanical art as resources for both artists and botanical art lovers.