botanical illustration

Lime or Linden Tilia cordata pen and ink illustration with watercolour wash. Illustration shows detail of individual fruit and of individual flower.

Plum Prunus prunus pen and ink illustration with watercolour wash.  Showing details of half plum with stone, and white blossom on twig.

Blackthorn Sloe Prunus spinosa pen and ink illustration showing fruit and blossom on a spiny branch with watercolour wash

Large landscape showing an idealised view of Bantham estate in Devon.  It explains the process of succession and stabilization in a sand dunes landscape.  Over 28 species of plant and 17 animals appear in this natural history illustration.  These include adders to sand wasps, Comma butterflies to linnets, and marram grass to Sea carrots. Species […]

Sycamore leaf sketchbook study of autumn Sycamore leaf showing yellow colour and tar spots.  

Hares-foot clover Trifolium arvense with detail of one flower and calyx

Partial sketch of a Zinnia flower done to accompany a step-by-step youtube video:

Ground elder Aegopodium podagraria showing individual seed and flower as well as spreading roots

Yellow-wort Blackstonia perfoliata showing basal rosette, individual seed, and distinctive pale green glaucous leaves

Common Fleabane Pulicaria dysenterica with disc floret seed with pappas and ray floret detail

Peach Prunus persica with a slice and one leaf

Waxcap assortment of species in a meadow: Golden, Goblet, Blackening, Crimson, Scarlet, Cedar snowy, Golden spindles, Fibrous, Ballerina, Parrot

Rowan Sorbus aucuparia sprig with berries and blossom

Periwinkle Vinca major flower sketch concentrating on the blues of the petals.

Birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculatus with seed pod and individual flower and calyx

Hibiscus Chinese Rose or Shoe flower Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Sketchbook study

Grape vine Vitis vinifera sketchbook study showing ripe grapes, tendrils and detail of leaf

Weeping Willow Salix babylonica sprig of leaves showing elongate leaf shape

Weeping willow Salix babylonica tree with typical drooping branches and growth form

Yew Taxus baccata sprig with berries an needles

Yew Taxus baccata tree showing typical growth form

Walnut Juglans regia nut in shell and loose nut

Walnut Juglans regia tree showing typical growth habit