It contains images of all the paintings in the main gallery. Kew Publishing produced it to coincide with the excellent Flora Japonica exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew (2016). This splendid NEW book is about the native flora of Japan and how this is depicted in contemporary botanical art. This book enables you to learn more about the artists and have a permanent record of the excellence of their work. I've much admired the paintings of native flora by Japanese artists that I've seen at various exhibitions in recent years.

This is MUST BUY for the library of any serious collector of books about botanical art. The image relates to a visit in Jto a sandbar at the mouth of the Natsui River in Kuji City, Iwate Prefecture. RHS Gold Medal Winners - Botanical Art Show 2022.These are her Facebook and Instagram accounts - where she posts her work in progress and parts of her completed painting for the project. It's an absolutely fascinating project and I do hope some botanical garden / museum somewhere will make her an offer she can't refuse at some point for the incredible botanical record she is creating - from scratch.

She visited affected areas of the Tohoku earthquake/tsunami (Friday 11th March 2011) and was inspired to make artwork based on the plants that grew in the aftermath. Mitsuko focuses on drawing the plants which grew again after the 2011 tsunami. Mitsuko Kurashina RHS Judges Special Award / GM (2022)īorn 1961 in Sannohe Town, Aomori Prefecture. Li ves in Tokyo and started botanical illustration in 2002 and studied plant ecology at Tokyo Agricultural University in 2011

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