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2006-2011 PhD, Communication Art and Design, Royal College of Art, London
1999-2001 MA, Communication Art and Design (Natural History Illustration), Royal College of Art, London
1995-1998 BA (Hons), Graphic Arts and Design, Leeds Metropolitan University
   
Solo Exhibitions  
2012 'The Pressed Plant' Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
2005 Jonathan Cooper Gallery, Park Walk, London    
2002 Hortus Gallery, Chelsea, London
     
  Group Exhibitions  
2017 ‘British Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection’ Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
2016 The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, Southampton Row, London, WC1A 2QP
2014 ‘Inspiring Kew’ Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
2013 ‘Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection’ Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
2011 ‘Watercolour’ Tate Britain, London
2011 ‘From Hand to Eye’ Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
2010  ‘Old and New South American Botanical Art’ Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
  2009-10 ‘Botanicals, Environmental Expressions in Art’ Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection, Hunt Institute, USA
  2009 Forum Botanische Kunst, Germany
  2009 ‘The Power of Plants’ Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
  2008 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
  2005 Royal Horticultural Society, London (awarded Gold medal)
  2004  Jonathan Cooper, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
  2004 Jonathan Cooper, Park Walk Gallery, London
  2004 11th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art and Illustration, Hunt Institute, USA,
  2004 Royal Horticultural Society, London (awarded Gold medal)
  2003 Hortus Gallery, Chelsea, London
  2003 ‘A Passion for Plants’ Contemporary Art from the Shirley Sherwood Collection, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, USA
  2001

Royal Horticultural Society, London (awarded Gold medal)
  2001 Royal College of Art, MA degree show, London
  2001 Botanical Watercolour Paintings, RCA Natural History Illustrators, Wetland Centre, Barnes, London
  2000  Royal Horticultural Society, London (awarded Gold medal)
  1998 Royal Horticultural Society, London  (awarded Silver Gilt medal)
     
 

Collections

  
  Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection
  Hunt Institute, USA
 

RHS Lindley Library, London  
  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London
  Shirley Sherwood Collection
  Many private collections worldwide
     
 

Publications

  
  ‘Plant’ Phadion (2016)
 

Curtis Botanical Magazine
  ‘Legumes of the World’ Lewis et al. (2005)
  ‘Inspiration’ Conran & Cliff (2008)