natural history illustration

Illustration for Roselyn Seeds packaging showing wild flowers in meadow setting

Harebell illustration, slightly idealised and with extra blooms, completed for a packaging job.

Small tortoiseshell Aglais urticae butterfly at rest with wings only slightly open.

Ash Fraxinus excelsior keys in autumn, having turned brown

Silver birch seeds with detail of one individual seed

Leaf and prickly seed case along with one chestnut

Scots pine Pinus sylvestris cones, one mature and one less ripe

Horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum conkers both in, and out of, their seed case

Small-leaved Lime leaf and seeds Tilia cordata with bract

Wych Elm Ulmus glabra leaf and seeds with close up of one seed

Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus winged seeds showing ripe and unripe paired seeds

Guelder rose Viburnum opulus leaf and fruit showing shiny red berries

Spindle Euonymus europaeus bright coloured autumn leaf and berries

Norway spruce Picea abies cone and individual seed

London plane Platanus × acerifolia leaf and seeds, with details of individual seeds

Hornbeam Carpinus betulus mature dry seed with bracts

Field maple Acer campestre sprig showing leaves and developing seeds and close up of mature seeds

Broken-belted bumble bee Bombus soroeensis, showing the bumble bee in flight, male bee

Broken-belted male bumblebee in flight.  Illustration for Swedish packaging company

Wood melick Melica uniflora with detail of ligule and individual floret

Red tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius with Cornflower Centaurea cyanus.  Second version of this seed packet design

Field fleawort Tephroseris intergrifolia showing basal rosette and furry characteristics

Early gentian Gentianella amarella subsp anglica showing pair leaves and basal rosette

Bastard-toadflax Thesium humifusum with detail of individual flower