Winning entries from an international selection of Botanical Artists and Photographers have been selected for the RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show, hosted in partnership with Saatchi Gallery. The works on display competed to be awarded an RHS Medal – Gold, Silver Gilt, Silver or Bronze and a ‘best in show’ award – Best Botanical Painting, Best Botanical Artwork, Best Portfolio Photography Exhibit and Judges Special Award.
The RHS has unveiled its medal-winning entries as it opens the 2022 RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The annual exhibition of international works runs until 29th April.
Award-winning works this year include:
Best Botanical Art Exhibit
Rosulate Violas of the Patagonian Andes by Nigel Pickering
Best Botanical Artwork
Arisaema thunbergii subsp. Urashima by Yoko Harada
Judges’ Special Award
Tsunami Plants by Mitsuko Kurashina
Best Portfolio Photography Exhibit
Portraits of Time by Paul Mitchell
| Botanical Art Award | Exhibitor Name | Exhibiting |
| Gold | Yoko Harada | The Genus Arisaema in Japan |
| Gold |
Jackie Isard |
Wet meadow wildflowers – their pollinators and as food plants |
| Gold | Mitsuko Kurashina | tsunami plants |
| Gold | Nigel Pickering | Rosulate Viola of the Patagonian Andes |
| Gold | Hye Woo Shin | Seeds of Korean Island Dokdo |
| Silver-Gilt | Andrew Carr | Two West Australian Eucalypts |
| Silver-Gilt | Annie Chen | Jewels in the Amazon rainforest |
| Silver-Gilt | Hyunjin Cho | The anatomy of flowers |
| Silver-Gilt | Catherine Day | Species lilies |
| Silver-Gilt |
Melinda Edstein |
Red flowering, bird pollinated Australian flowers |
| Silver-Gilt |
Margaret Fitzpatrick |
Threats to the Horse Chestnut Tree Documented in 2020 |
| Silver-Gilt | Julia Groves | Seeds of Hope |
| Silver-Gilt | Maureen Hallahan | Plant Lore |
| Silver-Gilt | Rui Jiang | Violas (Violaceae) |
| Silver-Gilt |
Irina Neacsu |
On Transylvania’s botanical remedies – Winter berries |
| Silver-Gilt | Pamela Taylor | Trees: Form and Structure |
| Silver-Gilt |
Susan Tomlinson |
From Field to T-shirt: Diversity in modern elite cotton bolls |
| Silver-Gilt | Julie Whelan | Passiflora |
| Silver | Georgia Danvers | Making the invisible visible |
| Silver | Jane Goodson | Aeonium |
| Silver | Yolande Muschamp | A Gloucestershire Hedgerow |
| Silver | Shirley Slocock | Lucian’s Herbarium Revisited |
| Silver | Wendy Smith | Running to seed – flower seed heads |
| Portfolio Photography Award | Exhibitor Name | Exhibiting |
| Gold | Paul Mitchell | Portraits of Time |
| Gold | Christine Adams | The Perpetual Cycle Of Life That Includes Death |
| Gold | Tracy Calder | Plant Scars |
| Gold | John Shepherd | Tribute to the Rainbow |
| Silver-Gilt | Libby Ellis | Cosmosis |
| Silver-Gilt | Mark Lunn | New Life from Old |
| Silver-Gilt | Sonia Létourneau | The Thread |
| Silver | Sanjay Dinker Jani | Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vein. |
| Silver | Konrad Cox | The Flowing Forest |
| Silver | Alan Bousfield | Kent Orchids |
| Silver | Kevin Dutton | Spring Bulbs |
| Silver | Kaylie Mountford | Contained – A Study of Botanical Houses |
| Silver | Ian Gilmour | Yorkshire Garden Abstracts |
| Bronze | Emma TS Robinson | Still Life With Flowers |
| Bronze | Joseph Shaffery | A Window to a World of Forests |
| Bronze | Jacki Rosin | The Dawn of Spring |
The RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show is open to the public from 9 – 29 April 2022 with free entry for RHS Members and Saatchi Gallery Members.
For more information about the RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show visit: www.rhs.org.uk/