JANE WATKINS (born 1953)
Rose Constance Spry (United Kingdom, 2002)
Watercolour on paper
Signed, titled by the artist on reverse
Dimensions
36.00cm high
46.00cm wide
(18.11 inches wide)
Provenance
The ArtistDescription / Expertise
Jane Watkins attended Leicester Polytechnic where she studied Textile Design and gained a degree in Art and Design in 1976.In the late 80's, when her children became more independent, she took up plant painting. In 1990 she was invited to spend a year in the USA with a commission to paint Frank Cabot's famous alpine plant collection in Wavehill, a national monument in New York, which culminated in a successful exhibition in Cold Spring, New York.
On her return to England she exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society in 1991, where she received a silver-gilt medal.
She also works as a freelance illustrator, mostly for children's educational books. Harper & Collins, Ginn, Jarrolds and Macmillan/Heinemann have published her work.
She now works for the National Geographic Society. In May 2000 seventy-five of her paintings of medicinal plants were published in a book entitled Nature's Medicine.
