Biography

Born in 1954, South Africa.

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts, University Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
• Classes for botanical illustration from Katie Lee (USA) and Jenny Philipps (Aus)

Profession:

• 1977 – 1979 Freelance illustrator
• 1980 – 1981 Artist at the national Botanic Gardens, Pretoria, South Africa.
• 1982 – 1985 Freelance artist at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, England.
• 1986 – 2004 Freelance illustrator in South Africa and Zürich.
• 2019 Member of SGBK - Schweizerische Gesellschaft Bildender Künstlerinnen
• 2021 Member of KVZ (Künstlervereinigung Zürich)

Awards:

• Winner of the Royal Horticultural Society gold medallion 1985
• Winner of the Botanical Artists Association silver medallion 1995
• Founding member of BAASA (Botanical Artists’ Association of South Africa)

Publications:

• Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (UK)
• Flowering Plants of Africa (SA)
• Veld and Flora (SA)
• P Linder and H Kurzweil, Orchids of Southern Africa
• Du Puy and Cribb, The Genus Cymbidium (UK)
• Various scientific journals